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The Subtle Side of Conscious Language

Thursday July 9, 2026

You’re flying above a work for a structural edit or wading through the waters of a stylistic edit, when you come across a scene or a phrase that makes you pause. Is this potentially harmful? Should I encourage the author to use conscious language here? Karen Yin, in The Conscious Style Guide, suggests that “conscious […]

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Joy Moskovic

Editing Certificate Programs in Canada, Part 2

Thursday July 23, 2026

Welcome back to our two-part exploration of editing certificate programs in Canada. Last week, we covered the programs offered through Mount Royal University and George Brown College, both of which focus on brand-new or prospective editors. Today, we will look at the certificates available from Queen’s University and Simon Fraser University, as well as how […]

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Christine Peric

Transferable Skills for Editing

Thursday August 20, 2026

I recently attended my first Editors Canada conference in the beautiful city of Halifax. I justified the trip from Manitoba to Nova Scotia as a first step in the right direction toward my new freelance editing career. Deciding to include myself among this crowd felt a little presumptuous, but I convinced myself I would attend […]

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R. Franklin Carter

Know Your Legal Limits

Tuesday February 26, 2013

Let’s begin by sketching a fictional but plausible scenario. Dan Ascot is a librarian who works at the University of Western Nebraska. One day, in 2009, he posts a few remarks about a publisher on his blog. He says that Knightsbridge Press, a publisher of scholarly books in Massachusetts, produces “over-priced works of dubious scholarship.” […]

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Karen Virag

GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Learning to like “like”

Tuesday April 9, 2013

One often hears complaints about how some people litter their sentences with the word like—not as a noun, verb, preposition or conjunction, but as, like, an interjection. Like that. Now I know that Canadians like to blame Americans for all the world’s ills, but we can’t really lay this verbal tic at the feet of […]

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Wilf Popoff

WASTED WORDS: A World Without Problems

Tuesday June 11, 2013

“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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Cartoon: 2 women drink tea. One says “Your book was published! How exciting! Can I get a copy?” The other answers, “I only have one left. They are, of course selling briskly,” as she pulls out a copy of The Tearful Rose from behind a curtain where there are many other copies.

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Rosemary Shipton

Editors and Self-Publishing Authors

Tuesday June 25, 2013

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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Kate Icely

DISPATCHES 5: How to Get a Job in Publishing

Tuesday July 16, 2013

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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Melva McLean

The Envelope, Please

Thursday January 16, 2014

I was at a film event the other night, and someone asked, “So what do you do for a living?” I, of course, answered, “I’m an editor.” They asked, “What movies have you worked on?” It happens all the time. But the other night, for the first time, someone asked me if I saw any […]

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David Antrobus

The Editor’s Fedora Part 1

Tuesday February 25, 2014

As an independent writer myself and a passionate believer in the indie ethic, I have to acknowledge one of its major downsides: a real or perceived shoddiness in the final product of self-published authors. Which is where I now switch hats and replace the bohemian beret of the writer with a more conservative form of […]

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