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Six Volunteers Receive Honorary CPE Status

October 7, 2014 | Filed under: Abby Egerter

Back in the Wild West days of editing (about the late 1980s or so), there were no competency tests for editors and few if any educational programs designed to serve the needs of the publishing industry. Some members of the then Freelance Editors’ Association of Canada were looking for objective …

Jennifer Foster

Keenness of Eye and Humble Pie, Along That Path Awards Will Lie

September 2, 2014 | Filed under: Abby Egerter

In this instalment of our “Editors in the Spotlight” series, Abby Egerter interviews editor Jennifer Foster, who worked on the award-winning Dirty Science: 25 Experiments with Soil, by Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone. Jennifer Foster has been editing for 17 years and freelancing for 10. However, book publishing is something …

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