Cover image of a paperback book, showing a hand holding a lot candle, surrounded by ghosts

Proofing time. Or "Oh, god, that sentence makes no sense" time...

Still, if I'm to even come close to winning a FIFA prize for literature, it has to be done...

#amwriting #amproofing #ghoststories #goodgrief #creativetyping #horrorfamily #booksky

two ducks are standing on a path in the grass Alt: From Untitled Goose Game, two white geese, one with a slightly different bill of a deeper orange that matches its feet, stand on a path surrounded by grass, a big rock, and mushrooms, and flap their wings in synchrony at each other.

Strasburg ➡️ Strasbourg #AmProofing

Nothing more productive than running a spellcheck on an English manuscript heavy with German, French, and Italian quotes and cites.

Lettre, lettere, lettore, letter—they're all correct!!

#amproofing

From Breaking Bad, Dean Norris as Hank Schrader, a bald white man in a pale pink casual shirt, sitting on the toilet and reading the inscription at the start of a book.

Drug Enforcement Agency ➡️ Drug Enforcement Administration #AmProofing #HolaDEA

You know what? These parentheses? They're m-dashes now

#NoAI #AmProofing

Look what appeared in my mailbox! It's the proof copy of my new book "Searching for Richard Nixon" that looks at my investigation into the American's secret visit to my hometown of Picton & Bay of Quinte...guess what I'm doing this weekend? #amproofing

It's my fourth time through this text (I'm now on proofs), and NOW that comma strikes me as wanting to go? #AmEditing #AmProofing #AmApparentlyNot100%ConsistentDayToDayInMyPreferences

Has anyone got a copy of Sources in the History of Psychiatry, from 1800 to the Present to hand? Could someone tell me the page run for 'Asylum Records: Files, Notes, Casebooks, and Patient Registers'?

#AmProofing

cc @harbottlestores @beastruz