How Words Get Good

The Story of Making a Book

Rebecca Lee

Description

Join Rebecca Lee as she embarks on the fascinating journey to find out how a book gets from author's brain to finished copy. She'll learn the dark arts of ghost-writers, uncover the hidden beauty of typesetting and find out which words end up in books (and why). And along the way, her quest will be punctuated by a litany of little-known considerations that make a big impact: ellipses, indexes, hyphens, esoteric grammar and juicy errata slips. Whoops.

From foot-and-note disease to the town of Index, Missouri - turn the page to discover how books get made and words get good. Or, at least, better.

Details

  • Format
    Hardback
  • Pages
    384
  • Size
    215 x 135mm
  • Publisher
    Profile
  • ISBN
    9781788166379
Stock Code
220287
Our Price
$34.99
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