[bksvol-discuss] Re: question about proffing
- From: "Ann Petrous" <annpetrous@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:33:29 -0500
Hold for Ann P.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 11:29 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question about proffing
OK, I'll start working on it tonight. What do you want as the Hold for
name?
Misha
On 11/26/2010 5:32 PM, Ann Petrous wrote:
> "Bring Me The Head Of Prince Charming" sounds really good. I would be more
> than happy to proof read that. Just let me know when you have submitted
it,
> if I forget to look on the site.
>
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 8:13 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question about proffing
>
> According to the publishers we are all idiots or dummies, but I prefer
> to think we are all misunderstood geniuses.
>
> Sorry to hear your book choice was not very well scanned. I don't have
> any fantasy ready to submit immediately, but I have a couple novels, one
> of which I could have cleaned up by Monday. They are somewhat offbeat
> fantasy, so you may or may not be interested. They are:
>
> Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming
> by Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley
> People feared, back in the Middle Ages that the world would end with the
> milenium. Nor were they incorrect. It does this every milenium, only
> nobody notices--except for the Forces of Good and Evil, who vie for
> control of the universy every thousand years. "Bring Me the Head of
> Prince Charming" concerns the efforts of one Azzic Elbub, demon, to win
> the Milenial Evil Deeds award for the year 1000, given to the being
> whose acts do the most toward reshaping the world. Azzic's proposal to
> the Powers of Dark is simple. He will create a Prince Charming and a
> Sleeping Beauty. In time-honored fairy-tale fashion, the prince will
> fight his way through numerous perils to reach the side of the
> spellbound princess--at which point Azzic's evil twist will ensure that
> the Powers of Dark will win the grand prize. But even with an unlimited
> satanic credit card to order up any evil he needs, Azzic's plan is in
> trouble from the beginning...
> about 300 pages
>
> Unicorn Mountain
> by Michael Bishop
> Libby Quarrels is a divorced Colorado rancher near bankruptcy; Bo Gavin
> is an Atlanta adman with AIDS; Sam Coldpony is a Ute Indian with a
> vengeful past; his daughter, Paisley, is haunted by her dead mother's
> ghost. Into the lives of these four fragile human beings comes a
> species of unicorn as beautiful and mysterious as it is vulnerable. The
> mythical creatures have come from a faraway place to the majestic
> Colorado mountains for a specific reason; someone has to do something
> here, in this world, to save them from a deadly plague that could wipe
> them out once and for all.
> about 400 pages
>
> Misha
>
> On 11/26/2010 8:48 AM, Ann Petrous wrote:
>> I run jaws 11, and I use Microsoft word 2003. I'm an idiot and didn't
>> realize or didn't register the question about what editing program I use.
>> Lol I started proofing Wren's quest, but it needs to be re-scanned
because
>> there was so much jarble, and parts of words, and sentances were cut off,
>> that none of the sentances made any sense. If there is another fantasy
>> novel, I could proof read, let me know, until the book is re-scanned.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chela Robles
>> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 11:26 AM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question about proffing
>>
>> I'm assuming you are using Microsoft Word. Yes? I'm a JAWS 10 user as
> well.
>> --
>> "To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you
>> forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be
> sophisticated,
>> but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to,
>> then I think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie
in
>> the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality
> of
>> the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti--
>> --
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ann Petrous"<annpetrous@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To:<bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 7:54 AM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question about proffing
>>
>>
>>> I use JAWS as my screen reader, and I don't use an editing program. What
>>> you
>>> said is what it does while I'm proofing. This time, I will eave it
alone.
>>> I
>>> screwed it up with the last book I proof read, as far as pages are
>>> concerned. I wilol eave it alone this time. I just thought to ask
because
>>> sometimes when I download a book from the site, I will get a book with
> two
>>> different page numbers. Thanks for the information.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
>>> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 1:13 AM
>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question about proffing
>>>
>>> What software are you using to do the proofing? If you are using an
>>> editing program such as MS Word and a screen reader, in some cases there
>>> will be a page number in the text of the page and another page number
>>> that the software keeps track of. For example, if your book has 4 pages
>>> without numbers at the beginning of the book, then starts with page 1 in
>>> the text, by the time you get to the page with 212 in the text, your
>>> software might call it page 216. Each time you come to a new page your
>>> screen reader might say the number the software gives the page, then the
>>> page number in the text. In general, you can't change the page number
>>> assigned by the software, and you want to leave the page number in the
>>> text. In other words, you probably shouldn't change anything. But, you
>>> are supposed to make sure the book has all its pages, and if possible
>>> that all the numbers in the text are in the correct order.
>>>
>>> Misha
>>>
>>> On 11/24/2010 8:06 PM, Ann Petrous wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I have a quick question about proofing a book. While I was proofing
>>>> Wren To The Rescue, (which was very cute by the way) as I'm going
>>>> through the pages, there are two sets of page numbers. For example, it
>>>> will say 212, and then it will say page so, and so. Do I leave that
>>>> alone or do I delete the first set of pages? For example, it will say
>>>> 212 and then it will say page 216. I hope I don't sound confusing. Lol
>>>> I can't think to explain it any other way.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Ann
>>>>
>>>> P.S whoever is looking over Wren To The Rescue, I didn't realize that
>>>> Wren's name was spelled with a W. I think I only took out the W once,
>>>> and I also accidently removed it in the title page just before I
>>>> submitted it. Sorry about that.
>>>>
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