{"id":549,"date":"2010-11-05T10:46:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T00:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:48","slug":"reviewing-the-edits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/bhutan\/549","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing the Edits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"g2image_float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/images\/firstpage.jpg\" alt=\"First Page of Dragon Bones\" \/>My publisher sent me the edited version of my manuscript last week.  It came as a pdf locked with a password and the formatting all as it will appear in the final version.  It looks beautiful.  I&#8217;m also glad that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionfacts.com\/buddhism\/symbols\/knot.htm\" title=\"Buddhist symbol\">endless knot<\/a> image I chose as a section break has stayed in the print version.  It looks a little blurred on my screen, but I&#8217;m sure it will be fine in full resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is for me to review the book in its entirety, taking note of the changes made and questions asked by the editor.  I received an early warning of the edits with a nice note that my writing was good enough that few changes were required.  I wasn&#8217;t sure how to take that &#8211; whether to be glad that not much would be changed or worried that the editor hadn&#8217;t really looked carefully.  I needn&#8217;t have worried.  The questions are all good ones that I&#8217;ll need to address.<\/p>\n<p>One that I&#8217;m uncertain about involves my use of Australian terms.  I envisioned that the book would be marketed in Australia at first and only further afield if it sold well.  I&#8217;ve therefore included well-known words and concepts such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drizabone.com.au\/store.asp?pr=15&#038;ban=M&#038;store=Mens-p-1-c-1250\" title=\"Outback raincoat\">Drizabone<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coup%C3%A9_utility\" title=\"coupe utility vehicle\">ute<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploroz.com\/Places\/77649\/VIC\/Craigs_Hut.aspx\" title=\"Craig's Hut from the Man From Snowy River\">Jim Craig&#8217;s hut<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/bloke\" title=\"Man\">bloke<\/a> without any description of what these are.  Do I need to change these for an international audience or do they add character?  Would you reach for wikipedia or would you take them in stride?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My publisher sent me the edited version of my manuscript last week. It came as a pdf locked with a password and the formatting all as it will appear in the final version. It looks beautiful. I&#8217;m also glad that the endless knot image I chose as a section break has stayed in the print&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/bhutan\/549\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reviewing the Edits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,43],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}