We editors have our own celebrities. At the March meeting of Editors BC, which featured Stefan Dollinger, editor-in-chief of the DCHP-2 (A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, second edition), a name on the guest list caught my eye. Could it be? Really? It was. In the audience was Margery …
When I joined the publishing department of Legal Aid BC last year, none of my colleagues had used PerfectIt. But I have …
“Everything’s happening at once,” laughs Margo LaPierre, the winner of the 2018 Claudette Upton Scholarship. She’s chatting with me while her husband …
This post is part of a new series of case studies by and for in-house editors. The focus of this series is on …
I occasionally hire copy editors, and it’s fascinating to see how people handle the rather limited genres of the résumé and cover …
People with serious health problems are often subject to novel treatments. But that shouldn’t mean being treated like they’re in a novel. …
There’s a short paragraph in Budget 2018 that didn’t garner much buzz last year. But it holds hope for women-owned companies that …
Because I was a confirmed reading addict when television appeared, it failed to dislodge my teenage obsession. Like Groucho Marx I found …
When I was at school, I learned a poem in Irish called ‘Tháinig Long ó Valparaiso’ by Pádraig de Brún (it’s actually …
I teach plain language workshops, and I was recently approached by a non-native English speaker. His language skills were excellent. He said …