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Madeleine Vasaly

An Introduction to Proofreading Comics

Thursday May 16, 2024

If you proofread prose books or magazines, working on your first comic book or graphic novel can be intimidating. A lot of your skills are transferable and will serve you well across media types, but some editorial elements are handled differently. Reading comics from a range of genres and publishers will help you get familiar […]

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Sohini Ghose: An Editor’s Top 3

Thursday October 3, 2024

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Sohini Ghose (she/her) is an editor with over fifteen years of international experience, having worked on an array of books with indie and major publishers, university presses, and debut and bestselling authors, including a Nobel Prize laureate. […]

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Count Your Hours to Boost Your Freelance Editing Business

Thursday October 24, 2024

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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Read and Discuss: Elements of Indigenous Style, Second Edition

Thursday March 13, 2025

Next month, the academic editing book club will host Warren Cariou, the lead editor of the revised Elements of Indigenous Style, for a 60-minute Q&A. This book club is run by the Academic Editing Special Interest Group, a collaboration of Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA). I was thrilled to have the opportunity […]

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Why Academic Editors Should Read Thing Explainer

Thursday September 4, 2025

In November, the academic editing book club will meet online to discuss Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe of xkcd. This book club is run by the Academic Editing Special Interest Group (SIG), a collaboration of Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA). Francis Crick said his copy of The Children’s Encyclopaedia influenced him more […]

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Tracey Anderson

Plain Language Resistance: Is “Plain” the Problem?

Thursday November 6, 2025

As a writer and editor who also teaches academic and business writing, I get asked a lot of language questions; it’s a regular and expected part of the job. One recent question, though, caught me by surprise: “How can I justify using plain language to my boss, who’s resistant to it?” The persistence of resistance […]

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Mahima Bhagwat on Editing with Authenticity

Thursday March 19, 2026

In this week’s post, Mahima Bhagwat shares her perspective on how editors can help authors shape authentic narratives. Q: You mention on your website that you’ve lived, studied and worked in multiple countries. In what ways does the perspective you’ve gained from that help you as an editor? I’m Indian, and all of my teen […]

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Upgrade Your Editing Checklists

Thursday April 23, 2026

Many editors use checklists, but if you’re looking to make an upgrade , consider coming to my session, Build Better Checklists for Your Editing Tasks, at the Editors Canada conference in May. I’ll be discussing how using comprehensive checklists for your editing tasks can transform your workday! Basic versus comprehensive checklists Checklists are everywhere. Search […]

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Templates as Generative for Creativity: Reading They Say / I Say

Thursday May 14, 2026

Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein’s They Say / I Say aims “to demystify academic writing by isolating its basic moves, explaining them clearly and representing them in the form of templates.” Overview Working from the assumption that “academic writing…calls on writers not simply to express their own ideas but to do so as a response […]

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