Things I learned from copyedits

I am getting closer to the publication date of Diamonds in Auschwitz and a completed book! I finished copyediting the entire manuscript. When you read something 1700 times, you’ll second guess yourself. I thought my book would be edited. One and done. All you non-journalism people can celebrate. The very first thing I noticed when I looked at the copy editor’s changes was the death of my AP comma. I’m entirely too wordy. I blame this on my early Tolstoy and Dostoevsky influences. Like everything else in this publishing journey, copy editing was a wonderful learning experience. Round two of publishing?