Copyediting and the fact-checking process

Denise and Louise talk to Laura Poole, a professional copyeditor who specializes in working with university presses on scholarly non-fiction, mainly in the humanities. Laura discusses the importance of fact checking. Listen to find out more about: What a copyediting service includes When fact checking takes place in the editorial process Fiction: place names, historical accuracy, idiom, dates, etymology Non-fiction: people names, obscure terms, place names, dates, protecting author reputation Differences between spot checking and fact checking Fact checking for consistency across series Print versus digital: preventing reputational damage in the long term Tools for fact checking Who’s responsible for fact checking? Effective and sensitive querying of facts in non-fiction Artistic licence with facts in fiction Mentioned in the show: Laura Poole, Archer Editorial: https://www.sfep.org.uk/directory/laura-poole and https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurapoole/ Tool: Internet Movie Database (IMDb): https://www.imdb.com/ Tool: The Historical Thesaurus of English: https://ht.ac.uk/ Tool: Google Ngram Viewer: https://books.google.com/ngrams Tool: CIA – The World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ Tool: The New Food Lover's Companion (Barron's Cooking Guide) Tool: The Art of Firearms in Fiction: https://www.louiseharnbyproofreader.com/the-art-of-firearms-in-fiction.html Denise and Louise Denise Cowle Editorial Services (non-fiction) Louise Harnby | Proofreader & Copyeditor (fiction) Music credit ‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/