The subversive copy editor : advice from Chicago (or, how to negotiate good relationships with your writers, your colleagues, and yourself) / Carol Fisher Saller.

The subversive copy editor
The good launch
Working for the reader, through the writer : carefulness, transparency, flexibility
When things get tough : the difficult author
The misguided martyr, or, Laying down your life for the serial comma
Dear writers : a chapter of your own
When things get tough (the sequel) : the dangerous manuscript
Know thy word processor
The living deadline
That damned village : managing work relationships
The freelancer's quandaries
Things we haven't learned yet : keeping up professionally
The Zen of copyediting
You still want to be a copy editor? : Breaking in.