Author: Cat London

Cat London’s jobs might better be presented as a bulleted list: she is an Editors Canada–certified copy editor and an experienced structural and stylistic editor and proofreader working in trade fiction and non-fiction, as well as a writer, photographer and educator. She played roller derby for five years and has a concomitantly broad vocabulary of profanity. Cat lives in Kingston, Ontario.
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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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Talking Sh!t: Editing Swear Words

May 9, 2024 by Cat London | 2 Comments on Talking Sh!t: Editing Swear Words

As editors, we think and talk a great deal about words. We analyze words, we move them around, we cross some out and we add others in. When we gather at conferences and meetings across the world, we talk about words and then we come home and frequently read and write about words. But there’s […]

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