“A Manuscript Editor’s Life” Copy editing book manuscripts; working with authors; tips for staying out of trouble; finding a job; living a good life as a copy editor.

Carol Fisher Saller, author of The Subversive Copy Editor and its related blog, edits scholarly books at the University of Chicago Press and is the longtime editor of the Chicago Manual of Style Online’s Q&A. She has also worked as an editor of children’s fiction and nonfiction and has written several books for children, most recently Eddie's War, a middle‐ grade novel about an Illinois farmboy during World War II.