Copyediting and the fact-checking process - a podcast by Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)

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 processFiction: place names, historical accuracy, idiom, dates, etymology
Non-fiction: people names, obscure terms, place names, dates, protecting author reputationDifferences between spot checking and fact checking
Fact checking for consistency across seriesPrint versus digital: preventing reputational damage in the long term
Tools for fact checkingWho’s responsible for fact checking?
Effective and sensitive querying of facts in non-fictionArtistic 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/)

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