Amy J. Schneider is a veteran copyeditor who's worked on bestsellers across a wide swath of genres. In a series of approachable thematic chapters, Schneider offers cogent advice on how to deal with dialogue, voice, grammar, conscious language, and other significant issues in fiction. She focuses on the copyediting tasks specific to fiction, such as tracking the details of fictional characters, places, and events to ensure continuity across the work, and provides a slew of sharp, practicable solutions drawn from her twenty-five years of experience working for publishers both large and small.