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Starting Your Editorial Blog

December 1, 2020 | Filed under: Tanya Mykhaylychenko

Your editorial blog is an excellent tool to attract new clients, maintain relationships with existing or past clients and optimize your website for search engines. Before you start blogging, consider these two starting points: Your blog is not about you; its purpose is to answer your clients’ questions and offer …

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Peerwith.com: A Peer-to-Peer Editorial Platform

November 24, 2020 | Filed under: Glenna Jenkins

There are career opportunities for editors who are interested in helping non-native English-speaking researchers prepare their papers for publication. This type of work allows editors to meet and work with smart, interesting people and have a front-row seat to new research coming on stream. The Peerwith community Peerwith.com is an …

Gael Spivak: An Editor’s Top 3

May 5, 2020 | Filed under: Gael Spivak

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Gael Spivak works in communications for the Government of Canada, where she specializes in plain language writing and editing. An editor for 13 years, Gael has worked on topics that include food …

Lost and Found

October 3, 2017 | Filed under: Melva McLean

Over the years I’ve done a lot of freelance fiction editing, mostly developmental. I send off the manuscripts with a critical analysis, a lot of developmental markup and some copy editing. Some of the authors go on to be published; their autographed works are on my bookshelves. Of the ones …

Wasted Words: The Phantom Client

July 18, 2017 | Filed under: Wilf Popoff

For many editors positive client engagement is central to a project — a good work relationship, frank feedback and response, and, finally, appreciation. Such pleasures, alas, are seldom part of my grind. Often I don’t get close enough to an actual client to cultivate such a connection. Communications agencies or …

The Weird and the Wonderful: The Art of Selecting Clients

January 24, 2017 | Filed under: Margaret Sadler

What do you do when a clearly weird and off-balance writer asks for your professional services? “Run!” is the response I got from several editor colleagues, and that has been my gut reaction, too. Such projects can often feel particularly intriguing. And sometimes there’s a sense that good money is …

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