Publishing lingo explained - a podcast by Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)

In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Denise and Louise demystify publishing language – the terms professionals use to describe the parts of a book – so that you can talk with confidence about your text. Listen to find out more about:
the beginning (or front matter; prelims), the main or body text and the end matter (or back matter)part titles, half titles, and title pages
forewords and prefacesacknowledgements
pages, page numbers, and folios
double page spreads (DPSs)rectos and versos
running heads and running feetdrop caps or dropped capitals
chapter dropsappendices and glossaries
footnotes and endnotesbibliographies, references, and indexes


Editing biteshttps://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html (The Chicago Manual of Style)https://global.oup.com/academic/product/new-harts-rules-9780199570027?cc=gb&lang=en& ( New Hart’s Rules)

Indexing societieshttp://www.asindexing.org/ (American Society for Indexing)http://www.asaib.org.za/ (Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers)
http://www.anzsi.org/ (Australia and New Zealand Society of Indexers)http://www.cnindex.fudan.edu.cn/ (China Society of Indexers) (site in Chinese)
http://www.d-indexer.org/ (Deutsches Netzwerk der Indexer/German Network of Indexers)http://www.indexers.ca/ (Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d’indexation)
http://www.indexers.nl/ (Nederlands Indexers Netwerk/Netherlands Indexing Network)https://www.indexers.org.uk/ (Society of Indexers) (UK)

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Denise and Louisehttps://www.denisecowleeditorial.com/ (Denise Cowle Editorial Services) (non-fiction)
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