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Editing in the Time of Covid

January 11, 2022 | Filed under: Rosemary Shipton

As we enter 2022, it’s time to ask how editors have fared during the pandemic and what lies ahead. When the world as we knew it suddenly shut down in March 2020, we feared for our health and our livelihoods, uncertain what might transpire. How have we done? For most …

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Searching for the Positive Side of Change

December 21, 2021 | Filed under: Lucy Payette

Many of my conversations of late have started with “I would have thought by now we would be … ” or “I’m not sure what the next few months will bring ….” This past year has been called many things: the Great Resignation, the Great Reshuffle, the second year of …

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On Resolving to Publish: Book Publishing in 2021 and Beyond

January 12, 2021 | Filed under: Heidi Waechtler

I’ve worked in publishing for about 15 years, but every year I’m caught off guard by the January phenomenon of aspiring authors who’ve resolved that this is the year they’re publishing a book. Manuscript submissions and calls about the publishing process become more frequent, as do inquiries about how to …

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English Editing in Quebec: Linguistic Interference During COVID-19

November 3, 2020 | Filed under: Dwain Richardson

This post is part of a series on some of the challenges English editors and translators encounter when working with French texts. When the COVID-19 pandemic oozed into Canadian territory in March, government officials and media outlets across the country were working hard to keep society apprised of the latest …

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The Times They Are A-Changin’

October 13, 2020 | Filed under: Marianne Grier

My parents recently sold our family home. Perched on a hill in a small Nova Scotia town, the house was the backdrop to my childhood and school years. While I hadn’t lived there for ages, it was the place I always went back to. I could navigate my way in …

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The New Networking Reality for Students

September 29, 2020 | Filed under: Jasmine Peteran

For students trying to establish themselves as freelance editors, networking is key to success. Now that the fall semester has started, students are dreading the anticipated lack of opportunities with this new post-secondary experience. Networking is central to nearly every professional field, but especially true for those of us who …

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Do Freelance Editors Know How to Work at Home?

September 1, 2020 | Filed under: Anita Jenkins

Many thousands of office employees who were forced to work from home because of COVID-19 will continue to do so. Only 36 per cent of Canadians anticipate returning to their “place of work” when the pandemic subsides, according to an Angus Reid study. Freelance editors have been working from home …

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Transitioning Between the Home and the Home Office

June 2, 2020 | Filed under: Jasmine Peteran

Amid all the Zoom calls and email threads, I sit in my makeshift home office staring at the dust collecting on the windowsill. We’ve entered into uncharted territory, yet every day looks the same. I started my career with a love of language, of words and of writing, but over …

Covid-19 Life

My COVID-19 Life Edit

May 19, 2020 | Filed under: General EAC, Marianne Grier

Since COVID-19 came to B.C., I’ve gone through an involuntary life edit. Things have proceeded like any full edit (though let’s skip the proofread for now, shall we?). The first changes were sweeping, dramatic and structural as we paused daycare, moved to working mostly from home and navigating meetings around …

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