Copyediting ?

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> Carol:
> I'm not talking about copyediting at the major publishers, who have
> their inhouse copyeditors. I'm talking about freelance copyediting
> with private clients who work directly through me or through an
> editing service, which takes a 40 % cut to handle the business
> expenses and correspondence (raw deal for me, but saves me work I'd
> rather not have to do). These private clients need their work
> copyedited *before* they submit it to an agent or publisher (who 
would otherwise take one look and throw it in the slush pile (or stuff 
it in the provided SASE if the client is that savvy).
> 
> Copyediting *is* a luxury if you're a first-time novelist or self-
help author or whatever with no contacts, no experience, and no 
prospect of being published unless you pay someone to edit your work. 
Those are the people I work with most of the time. Consequently, in 
this economy, business is slow. 

Tonks:

I am rather curious as to exactly what a copyeditor does? It is just 
proof reading to catch mistakes in grammar, puntuation, and spelling? 
Helping to make the subject clear to the reader or ????

Tonks_op
who knows this is not spelled correctly and too lazy to open another 
window to put it into compose at my Yahoo mail. Computer is too slow. 
Mabye one of the computer people will teach us how to make the computer 
go faster when there is too much stuff on it.