Fact checking. With copyeditor Laura Poole

In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Denise and Louise talk to Laura Poole about the importance of fact checking.

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Find out more about

• What a copyediting service includes
• When fact checking takes place in the editorial process
• Fiction: place names, historical accuracy, idiom, dates, etymology
• Non-fiction: people names, obscure terms, place names, dates, protecting author reputation
• Differences between spot checking and fact checking
• Fact checking for consistency across series
• Print versus digital: preventing reputational damage in the long term
• Tools for fact checking
• Who’s responsible for fact checking?
• Effective and sensitive querying of facts in non-fiction
• Artistic licence with facts in fiction

Related links and resources

• Laura Poole, Archer Editorial
• Tool: Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
• Tool: The Historical Thesaurus of English
• Tool: Google Ngram Viewer
• Tool: CIA – The World Factbook
• Tool: The New Food Lover's Companion (Barron's Cooking Guide)
• Tool: Research tools for crime and thriller writers

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Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.

She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.

Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.