The Editorial team is proud to announce that Stan Rogal’s manuscript of Obsessions has been thoroughly edited and was finally sent over to the Design team! Both semester one and semester two Editorial teams have worked countless hours in collaboration with Mr. Rogal to ensure that his stories are as clean and perfect as they can be—very much unlike the gruesome and messy relationships in the stories themselves. With our trusty Chicago Manual of Style and Oxford Canadian Dictionary, we rigorously combed through the manuscript sentence by sentence, ensuring that no comma was left misplaced and that no word remained misspelled. In addition, thanks to the efficient work of the Design team, Editorial has also managed to complete the proofreading of the laid out stories early this week, bringing us one step closer to the finished product.
This semester’s Editorial team has also been working in collaboration with the Special Projects and Web teams with their own assignments. We have assisted Special Projects with editing both a collection of academic essays to be published in an ejournal and the York U. Bookstore’s blog (which is currently still under construction, but worth a look at when it’s up). We have also assisted in the editing of the Leaping Lion Books website, designed and maintained by our amazing Web team.
Going through the editing process was a fantastic learning experience for us young publishing-hopefuls and it’s so satisfying to see all our hard work reflected in the polished manuscript. With March slowly approaching, we are in the final stretch of the publication process, and the entire Leaping Lion Books publishing team is continuing to work diligently to bring the book together in time for our book launch on March 13th, 2014. We hope to see you all there!
Kathleen Resurreccion, Copy Editor
Leaping Lion Books 