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Kate Icely

DISPATCHES 5: How to Get a Job in Publishing

July 16, 2013 by Kate Icely | 4 Comments on DISPATCHES 5: How to Get a Job in Publishing

  Always, ALWAYS, be prepared to talk about what you’re reading. Despite the auspicious title of this article, I can’t actually tell you how to get a job in publishing. Fewer and fewer jobs are opening up in this industry every day, and young people are having to get pretty creative to snag the few […]

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Karen Virag

GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Taking issue with “issues”

July 11, 2013 by Karen Virag | 4 Comments on GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Taking issue with “issues”

I think I remember the first time I heard the word issues used as a synonym for problems. I was watching a long-forgotten television sitcom, and one character commented on another’s weird behaviour by saying, “She has issues.” She overenunciated the word issues and at the same time made little scratching gestures with her index […]

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Dominique Fortier

De la révision/correction de textes d’hier (papier) à aujourd’hui (numérique)

July 4, 2013 by Dominique Fortier | Leave a Comment

L’article What Do Editors Need To Know Now?, publié par Lana Okerlund dans L’Hebdomadaire des réviseurs, il y a quelques semaines, m’a beaucoup fait réfléchir. Elle mettait en mots ce que j’ai l’intuition qui se passe dans l’univers de la révision depuis quelque temps déjà. C’est-à-dire que la révolution technologique engendrée par l’accessibilité accrue au Web, […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Editors and Self-Publishing Authors

June 25, 2013 by Rosemary Shipton | 15 Comments on Editors and Self-Publishing Authors

As editors, we must break out of our anonymous shell and shout our virtues loudly and clearly for writers to hear. We’ve all heard the stories: a few authors who self-publish do extremely well, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, while the majority have little success, bringing in less than $500 all told. […]

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Iva Cheung

Going Out of Style

June 18, 2013 by Iva Cheung | 1 Comment on Going Out of Style

It’s house style. I don’t think I fully appreciated the power of that sentence until I could no longer use it. As editors we’re constantly striving to balance the needs of the publisher, author and reader, but with the growth of self- and custom publishing, the needs of the publisher are becoming irrelevant in more […]

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Wilf Popoff

WASTED WORDS: A World Without Problems

June 11, 2013 by Wilf Popoff | 1 Comment on WASTED WORDS: A World Without Problems

“Houston we have a challenge!” “This is Houston Apollo. What do you mean by challenge?” “A power drop in one of the two main electrical circuits.” “That’s a problem Apollo. Can’t copy challenge.” I’ve altered parts of this celebrated exchange from 43 years ago to support my case. At the time challenge was a word […]

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Melva McLean

Continuity in Film and Fiction

June 4, 2013 by Melva McLean | Leave a Comment

Movies are usually shot in location order, not narrative order, which makes physical continuity important. Last week I was watching my favourite crime show, and the female lead wore a blue shirt in an interrogation scene. The camera caught the cop’s dialogue in close up, then cut to a close up of the bad guy, […]

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Kate Icely

DISPATCHES 4: What’s an Intern Worth?

May 28, 2013 by Kate Icely | 2 Comments on DISPATCHES 4: What’s an Intern Worth?

So now that you know what editorial interns do and you have some tips to get you started, I’m sure you’re wondering how the editorial staff really feels about interns. This question was burning in my mind when I started at Random House Canada. With so many interns coming in (up to eight a year in […]

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Dominique Fortier

La langue de départ et la langue d’arrivée d’un texte en français et en anglais : comment ça marche

May 22, 2013 by Dominique Fortier | 1 Comment on La langue de départ et la langue d’arrivée d’un texte en français et en anglais : comment ça marche

À quel moment et de quelle manière la révision française se met-elle en branle dans le processus de publication d’un document bilingue? LANGUE DE DÉPART OU D’ORIGINE D’UN TEXTE Comme tous les textes provenant du gouvernement du Canada doivent être publiés dans les deux langues officielles, le français et l’anglais, il faut que le processus […]

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Karen Virag

GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Whom—don’t leave us! We hardly knew ye!

May 14, 2013 by Karen Virag | 2 Comments on GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Whom—don’t leave us! We hardly knew ye!

In the April 2013 Atlantic magazine, writer Megan Garber gleefully wrote: “Whom, I am thrilled to inform you, is dying.” And though I agree that whom seems to be going the way of the floppy disk, I don’t share Garber’s glee. Perhaps it’s because I think that grammatical inflection (when words change form to reflect […]

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