Denise and Louise talk to Laura Poole, a professional copyeditor who specializes in working with university presses on scholarly non-fiction, mainly in the humanities. Laura discusses the importance of fact checking. Listen to 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

Mentioned in the show: Laura Poole, Archer Editorial: https://www.sfep.org.uk/directory/laura-poole (https://www.sfep.org.uk/directory/laura-poole) and https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurapoole/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurapoole/) Tool: Internet Movie Database (IMDb): https://www.imdb.com/ (https://www.imdb.com/) Tool: The Historical Thesaurus of English: https://ht.ac.uk/ (https://ht.ac.uk/) Tool: Google Ngram Viewer: https://books.google.com/ngrams (https://books.google.com/ngrams) Tool: CIA – The World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/) Tool: The New Food Lover's Companion (Barron's Cooking Guide) Tool: The Art of Firearms in Fiction: https://www.louiseharnbyproofreader.com/the-art-of-firearms-in-fiction.html (https://www.louiseharnbyproofreader.com/the-art-of-firearms-in-fiction.html)

Denise and Louise https://www.denisecowleeditorial.com/ (Denise Cowle Editorial Services) (non-fiction) https://www.louiseharnbyproofreader.com/ (Louise Harnby | Proofreader & Copyeditor) (fiction)

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