The CMoS contributing editor and author of “The Subversive Copy Editor” will chat about her career.

About the Event

Join the EFA Chicagoland Chapter’s in-person June meeting when Carol Saller, a contributing editor to The Chicago Manual of Style and the author of The Subversive Copy Editor, will chat about her career as a copy editor, creative writer, and more!

The meeting will be held Friday, June 24, at Pilsen Yards (if the weather is good, we’ll be on the patio). It will begin at 3 p.m. and follow all applicable COVID guidelines. Because seating is limited, this is a chapter-only event, and registration is required.

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About Carol

Carol Saller is a contributing editor to The Chicago Manual of Style. Her book The Subversive Copy Editor is about win-win strategies for editors and writers, a book Publishers Weekly called “practical, relentlessly supportive and full of ed-head laughs.” Carol is also the author of several books for children. Her middle-grade novel Eddie’s War was a Best Book of the Year at Kirkus, Bankstreet, and the Chicago Public Library, and a Horn Book Recommended Verse Narrative.

After many years of copyediting scholarly nonfiction books for the University of Chicago Press, Carol now blogs advice for fiction writers at the Chicago Manual’s Shop Talk blog in the section called Fiction+. Her goal is to help creative writers make the best use of Chicago style to prepare their work for publication and negotiate effectively with agents, editors, and copy editors.