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Cat London

Up the Creek: Extreme Editing Solutions

February 27, 2025 by Cat London | 4 Comments on Up the Creek: Extreme Editing Solutions

Sometimes, we are editing “up the creek”: we have taken on too much work, neglected a deadline or otherwise wound up under pressure to produce a large amount of work in a very short time. When you’re way up that creek and your paddle is far behind you, you may have to forge a new […]

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Nicola Aquino

Editors Need Emergency Plans

February 13, 2025 by Nicola Aquino | 2 Comments on Editors Need Emergency Plans

This post has been adapted from a presentation for the Editors’ Vine, a virtual group for Editors Canada members who face barriers to participation in face-to-face branch or twig meetings. Since everyone’s business needs are different, we recommend that you review your emergency plans with your financial and legal advisors. Most of us have at […]

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Sydney Jarrard

Catalogue Editing: Three Tips for Success

November 21, 2024 by Sydney Jarrard | 2 Comments on Catalogue Editing: Three Tips for Success

Holiday catalogues are hitting your mailbox and online gift guides are popping up across your social media feeds. Who’s behind those publications, making sure prices are up to date, product names are accurate and merchandise pictures match the copy? It’s an editor, of course. Here are some tips for ensuring your catalogue is error-free:  Create […]

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Erin Brenner

Count Your Hours to Boost Your Freelance Editing Business

October 24, 2024 by Erin Brenner | Leave a Comment

I love data. And maybe because my first jobs involved punching a clock, I’m really good at tracking my time. But many freelance editors I talk with don’t track their time. Tracking hours takes effort. If you’re not billing per hour, why bother? To that I would reply, Would you rather earn $20 an hour […]

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Laura Bontje Shannon Scott Suzanne Bowness

Trello for Editors: Three Ways to Make It Your Own

August 29, 2024 by Laura Bontje | Leave a Comment

In any project-driven job, it’s important to have a system for tracking your workflow and deadlines. Project management tools can vary from paper to-do lists to free or paid software. But it can take time to find the system that works best for you, especially when you’re not sure how best to optimize it for […]

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Andrew Park

Is It Okay to Be an Editorial Generalist?

February 22, 2024 by Andrew Park | Leave a Comment

Beginning freelance editors are often advised to “niche down.” The advantages of picking and sticking to an editorial niche are promoted in terms of acquiring expertise in a particular area, pursuing subjects that are your passion or plugging into networks of discipline-specific clients. Acknowledged expertise in a particular niche may also enable you to command […]

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Rosemary Shipton

An Editing Scenario for Discussion

November 24, 2022 by Rosemary Shipton | 12 Comments on An Editing Scenario for Discussion

You’re a freelance editor who has been building up your business for two years now. You’ve taken a few webinars related to copy editing, you consult the Chicago Manual of Style as needed and you’ve invested in PerfectIt. You’re excited because a prospective client has asked you to copy edit the detective novel he’s written. […]

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Tanya Mykhaylychenko

How Editors Can Maximize Referrals

November 17, 2022 by Tanya Mykhaylychenko | Leave a Comment

Self-employed editors and writers appreciate repeat clients and referrals. The more we are known and visible, the easier it is to have client prospects. Referrals come to us through past relationships, the quality of our work and our online presence. Relationships work best when we take a genuine interest in our clients’ work and listen […]

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Tanis McLeod

In-house to Freelance and Back Again

October 20, 2022 by Tanis McLeod | 2 Comments on In-house to Freelance and Back Again

I started my professional editing career among a team of writers and editors for the Alberta provincial government. At the time, government was the largest employer of editing professionals. The role was fairly limited: we did everything in Canadian Press style, we never credited a source, and I spent most of my time reviewing slight […]

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Suzanne Bowness

Long Live Long-time Freelancing

July 5, 2022 by Suzanne Bowness | 7 Comments on Long Live Long-time Freelancing

My name is Sue, and I’m a long-time, full-time freelancer. While most of the time I’m in the trees of my business, once in a while I zoom out to the forest and think about how different my way of working has been from that of other people. For 20 years, I’ve been the only […]

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S. Robin Larin

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Naomi Racz

February 22, 2022 by S. Robin Larin | Leave a Comment

This is the final post in a series of interviews that the Editors Canada student relations committee completed last year with Editors Canada award winners. This month, S. Robin Larin shares the committee’s interview with Naomi Racz (Cumberland, B.C.), who was the winner of the 2020 Claudette Upton Scholarship. (This interview has been lightly edited.) […]

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Becky Heaman

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Maxie Bai Martin

January 18, 2022 by Becky Heaman | Leave a Comment

The Editors Canada student relations committee completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, Becky Heaman shared the committee’s interview with […]

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Becky Heaman

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Iva Cheung

December 14, 2021 by Becky Heaman | 1 Comment on Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Iva Cheung

The Editors Canada student relations committee completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, Becky Heaman shared the committee’s interview […]

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S. Robin Larin

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Cathy McPhalen

November 9, 2021 by S. Robin Larin | Leave a Comment

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, S. Robin Larin shares the […]

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Becky Heaman

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Mary Rykov

September 28, 2021 by Becky Heaman | Leave a Comment

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, Becky Heaman shares the committee’s […]

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S. Robin Larin

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with James Harbeck

August 17, 2021 by S. Robin Larin | 5 Comments on Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with James Harbeck

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, S. Robin Larin shares the committee’s interview with […]

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Becky Heaman

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Amanda Lewis

July 13, 2021 by Becky Heaman | Leave a Comment

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. Amanda Lewis (Vancouver, British Columbia) received the […]

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S. Robin Larin

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Margo LaPierre

June 15, 2021 by S. Robin Larin | 2 Comments on Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Margo LaPierre

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. Margo LaPierre was the winner of the 2019 Claudette Upton […]

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Natalia Iwanek

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Donna L. Dawson

April 13, 2021 by Natalia Iwanek | 1 Comment on Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Donna L. Dawson

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. Donna L. Dawson is the winner of […]

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Tanya Mykhaylychenko

Job Application Process for Freelancers

February 25, 2020 by Tanya Mykhaylychenko | 4 Comments on Job Application Process for Freelancers

“Freelancing In America,” a study of the independent workforce, is now in its seventh year. While it doesn’t offer statistics about editors, the 2019 report confirms that 50 per cent of freelancers (57 million workers) consider it a long-term career. As freelance editors, we are aware of competition, industry and technology trends in our target […]

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Christina Vasilevski

How Joining an Editorial Association Kickstarted My Career

June 5, 2018 by Christina Vasilevski | 4 Comments on How Joining an Editorial Association Kickstarted My Career

It’s 2008. After graduating from university the year before, I have a soul-sucking job with a company of dubious morals. However, it’s the Great Recession and beggars can’t be choosers. I feel stuck, sad and like I’m drowning. Maybe I should get back into writing, I think. Online, I find out about Ryerson University’s publishing […]

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Brendan O’Brien

The Perils of Blabbing

April 3, 2018 by Brendan O'Brien | 6 Comments on The Perils of Blabbing

As a freelance editor, I’m lucky to work on some interesting books and journal material as well as dull and tedious stuff. I sometimes come across something that I would like to share, but resist the temptation, as publishers and authors naturally don’t like the contents of books, etc. to be disclosed before publication. I […]

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