THE EDITORS' WEEKLY

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Anita Jenkins

Mentorship: Where the Learners Teach and the Teachers Learn

October 24, 2017 by Anita Jenkins | 3 Comments on Mentorship: Where the Learners Teach and the Teachers Learn

Having a mentor is often invaluable for workers in their early to middle careers. Courses, study groups, guest speakers and conferences all help them learn their trade. But one-on-one interaction with a wise and supportive mentor is an incredibly important component of the learning curve. Let’s not forget, though, how much an experienced professional can […]

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Ellie Barton

Book Review | What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing

October 17, 2017 by Ellie Barton | 4 Comments on Book Review | What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing

What’s not to like about What Editors Do? This collection of essays traces the role of book editors from acquisition to publication and samples niches like editing genre fiction and working with self-publishing authors. What’s more, the 27 contributors represent a “who’s who” of American publishing: Betsy Lerner, Carol Fisher Saller, Jonathan Karp, Scott Norton, […]

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Sara Goodchild

A Puzzling Process

October 10, 2017 by Sara Goodchild | 10 Comments on A Puzzling Process

Like editing, solving puzzles is often a solitary endeavour. But not always! On the second Tuesday of every month, people get together in pubs across North America, Europe and beyond to solve puzzles at an event called Puzzled Pint. When I started going a few years ago, I never guessed that these entertaining nights out […]

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Melva McLean

Lost and Found

October 3, 2017 by Melva McLean | 2 Comments on Lost and Found

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 not published, about half come […]

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Julie Morin

Sortir de l’ombre grâce au blogue Nos langues

September 26, 2017 by Julie Morin | Leave a Comment

« Si seulement c’était moi, l’auteur de ce texte! » Si vous êtes comme moi, cette exclamation vous est probablement familière, surtout lorsque vos clients exigent une révision « réconfortante ». Vous savez ce dont je parle, la révision qui n’implique aucun changement, si ce n’est l’ajout de quelques virgules… J’ai travaillé pendant presque 10 ans à résoudre des problèmes […]

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Julie Morin

Emerge From the Shadows via the Our Languages Blog

September 26, 2017 by Julie Morin | Leave a Comment

“If only I could rewrite this text!” If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably had a similar reaction, especially if your clients are looking for a “soothing” edit. You know the kind I mean: one that doesn’t involve any changes beyond sprinkling a few commas here and there… I spent almost 10 years fixing language […]

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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: Verbal Abuse

September 19, 2017 by Wilf Popoff | 2 Comments on Wasted Words: Verbal Abuse

There are many writers and, apparently, more than a few editors who think that to be and some of its conjugations are not actual verbs. I regularly encounter headings like this: Blabworth is Picked to be Next Publisher. This grammatical confusion is exposed in titles using the conventional upper and lowercase system that calls for […]

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Anne Louise Mahoney

Listening With the Heart: Editing Indigenous Manuscripts

September 12, 2017 by Anne Louise Mahoney | 6 Comments on Listening With the Heart: Editing Indigenous Manuscripts

A Quill and Quire article popped up in my Twitter feed in late June: “Humber becomes new home for Indigenous Editors Circle.” I was thrilled that the Circle had found a home at Humber College’s Lakeshore campus in Toronto’s west end. Even better: a workshop on editing Indigenous manuscripts was being held in mid-August. I […]

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Rosemary Shipton

There’s No Clarity With Editors or Authors

September 5, 2017 by Rosemary Shipton | 6 Comments on There’s No Clarity With Editors or Authors

Editors say they love words, with finding just the right phrase for the context, but, ironically, they can only fail with two terms critical to the world of publishing: “editor” and “author.” When someone says she’s an editor, you have no idea what she does. Is she the editor of a newspaper or a magazine, […]

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Marianne Grier

Swapping Snacks From the Editor’s Lunch Box

August 29, 2017 by Marianne Grier | 4 Comments on Swapping Snacks From the Editor’s Lunch Box

I’ve always found new beginnings deliciously appealing. Whether it’s starting a fresh crossword puzzle, trying a new recipe or signing up for a class, I love the excitement of a new endeavour and wonder what I might learn along the way. As a school student, I wasn’t always keen to get back to class at […]

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