Finally, the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting is at the printer. It took long enough: Four years of preparing blog posts that were first-draft versions of much that’s new in the book. Two months solid of writing and collating. Three months of tweaking the manuscript and addressing an array of all sorts of comments from … Read More
I’ve sent the ABA my comments to the galleys of the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. Those who volunteered to read extracts did an amazing job; the text is in great shape. We’re now turning our attention to the cover. One task is coming up with the back-cover text. It could just consist of the … Read More
I’ve finished compiling the index for the third edition of MSCD. It’s fairly long—it occupies 22 pages of a single-spaced, single-column Word document. Perhaps by way of rationalizing the work involved, I offer the following observations: A sure sign of a dubious reference work is a skimpy index. And a sure way to compromise an index is for the author to … Read More
I spent the summer poring over the manuscript of the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. Then I read through it again. Then a few friends of the blog read through some or all of it and caught a bunch of glitches: extra words, words that should be in italics but weren’t, incorrect cross-references, and so … Read More
Yesterday I sent my esteemed publisher, the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association, the manuscript for the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. It will go on sale in early February. And yes, there will be an ebook version, although that will take a few weeks longer to prepare. In terms of its … Read More
My attention has been turning to the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, and I’d appreciate your input on a vital issue: What should I call it? The current title is fine, but it’s generic. And it’s not conducive to being shortened—MSCD leaves something to be desired as a moniker. The obvious thing to do would … Read More
