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Hello All, welcome to Correct Proofs, a snarky, opinionated blog on editing.

We here are in various groups and organizations for which we receive things called "ARCs." Now, you may be asking yourself right now: "What? Noah's sending you boats?" No, no, no. I'm sorry very stupid person, but Noah is dead and arcs are so last testament.

No, ARCs are an abbreviation for "Advance Readers Copy" or, essentially, a book that has been edited but not completely finished. See? Now you can impress girls/boys at parties.

Now, these ARCs tend to have one or two spelling/grammar errors. These errors are distracting(sometimes) but not nearly as distracting as the fact that many of these authors simply cannot write. God bless them, I'm sure their mothers are proud, but they cannot, often, write.

However, editors in New York (or wherever the devil editors live) never seem to realize that these books need to be fixed and/or have the time to fix them.

That is where we come in.

We do not have a vast amount of time in our respective days(I have but 27.495 hours in the day) but we all here at "Proofs" view this task as a valuable service. We are here to help. We are here to assist. We mean well, but we do believe in tough love here so, at times, some of our comments may come over as mean spirited and that's because....oh come on, we all know the real answer is that we are.

So, sit back and enjoy some snarky editing fun. We will each have our own style so, don't get all bent out of shape that we are not completely homogeneous. Have fun and long live the red pen.


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