Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >
To: Jessica Antony <███████████████████████ >
Cc: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>
Hi Jessica,
Please excuse the small novel of an email that this will be! Josh and I wanted to make sure to send you as much information as possible. That said, I am sure that there will be aspects we didn't consider, so please do not hesitate to get back to us with questions. If you like, we could schedule a meeting once you have had a time to look over all the material, to go over any think that jumps out to you. If that doesn't seem necessarily, questions over email are totally cool.
As an update on the scope of work, today I realized, in transferring the texts from online to Word, that Google Docs was not including the footnotes in its word count. As a result, the overall anticipated word count of the book is looking more like 35K. (Fingers crossed that this increase does not affect our working together!) The total word count of the 5 texts I am sending out today is around 26K.
Here is a list of specifications and notes that we have gathered in anticipation of you working on the texts:
> Chicago Manual of Style applies. We have made efforts to bring everything into this style, but there are still quite a few straggling details that need to be brought into compliance.
> Canadian spelling throughout
> Teresa's introduction will be the first text in the book, so hers should lay out all the full terms and titles and abbreviations in brackets. From there on the texts can use full titles or the approved abbreviations, as the author has decided, but there is no need for bracketed clarification. (Of course, Mariane's text brings in a lot of terminology that is specific to her text that can be treated normally).
Abbreviations include:
- Canada Council for the Arts or CCA
- Forest City Gallery or FCG
- artist-run centre (note lower case and french spelling) or ARC
- Canadian Artists' Representation/Le Font des artistes canadiens (CARFAC)
Teresa's intro also details the dates of The Employee, so those can be left out of subsequent texts, except where dates are specific to a point being made.
> We want to structure the citations in the Chicago style, with citations in endnotes for each text but a big bibliography at the end of the book. Mariane uses in-text citations, which need to be switched to endnotes.
> How to style covid: I have seen that the CMS prefers COVID-19 in all caps, but I find this jarring, so please use Covid-19 or the Covid-19 pandemic (note lower case p).
> How to style "employee" variations:
- The Employee > When the writer is referring to the artwork it is The Employee
- the employee > When the writer is referring to Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott
> List of correct spelling of names:
- Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott
- Joshua Schwebel
- Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte
- Marina Vishmidt
- Teresa Carlesimo
- Dana Kopel
- Lauren Wetmore
> A few areas to look out for, that I know are not stylistically consistent throughout, are numbers, emdashes, dates, and oxford commas.
That's all for now, but Josh may also want to chime in with a few notes.
Looking forward to reading your feedback!
Warmly,
Lauren