My mother bought me the Editor's Lexicon for Christmas.I have almost read through the entire thing but really it is a book to be visited and revisited during the writing (and editing process).
I am going to add a review from Amazon.com that explains it perfectly and why you should own this if you write fiction.
"This is a very helpful book. It gives names to many of the pitfalls we try to avoid in our writing, such as scope (which I would call "getting bogged down in one little detail") and info-dump (nobody wants to know that the conference table was rectangular or the taxi was drive-by-wire). The author even has the courage to use a passage from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight to illustrate weak style! She includes typical editorial comments to demonstrate how one might come across the terminology, as well as book excerpts illustrating good and bad execution and concepts that might otherwise seem obscure. It is a very short book, but its treatment of editorial lingo gives writers another tool for looking at their work with a bit more objectivity." -- Libby Cone (press her name for Amazon link with her review)
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