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Stephanie Watterson

From Editing to Writing: An Interview with Stephanie Watterson

Thursday October 16, 2025

This week, we interview Stephanie Watterson about writing and publishing her children’s book, Septopus. Want to be interviewed about your editing work? Contact us.  What is your editing background? Back in 2020, during the pandemic, I took a digital and print publications program and from there I did some freelancing. My hopes were to get […]

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Lisa Hislop

Seven Ways to Connect with New Authors without Social Media

Thursday November 13, 2025

It’s a tale as old as Twitter. Social media’s promise of a direct connection with hundreds of writers waiting to hire me seemed like an ideal marketing strategy for a newly minted (and introverted) editor. But, in keeping with the too-good-to-be-true genre, what I got was a distraction. The busy-work of posting and the comfortable […]

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Zanne Klingenberg

Trans Day of Remembrance: Language and Representation Matters

Thursday November 20, 2025

November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today, I will gather with my community to remember who and what we have lost this year. People. Rights. Safety. Soon we will dance and we will celebrate our joy as resistance. But today we grieve.  I am proud to be a trans editor. I have a unique […]

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Jamie Banks

Maintaining Your Joy as a Copy Editor

Thursday January 15, 2026

In February, the academic editing book club will host author Jamaal D. Pittman for a 60-minute Q&A about The Copy Editor’s (Life)Style Guide: Maintaining Your Joy (and Sanity) in a Rapidly Changing Profession. This book club is run by the Academic Editing Special Interest Group(SIG), a collaboration of Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers Association […]

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Emily Distefano

Emily Distefano: What’s on My Desk?

Thursday January 29, 2026

Welcome to our new series where we snoop through the workspaces of our fellow editors. This week, Emily Distefano, the newest member of our proofreading team at The Editors’ Weekly, tells us all about her desk essentials. Tools of the trade First, the basics: computer, glasses, office supplies. My current laptop is a sturdy Lenovo […]

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Letitia Henville

A Case Study in Content Marketing

Thursday April 9, 2026

I’m a big believer in content marketing. Done well, content marketing can support both your own business and our shared profession, because it shows potential clients what editors do and the wealth of knowledge we hold. When I’ve spoken with other editors about content marketing, I regularly encounter misconceptions: some folks assume it means they […]

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Melva McLean

Lights, Camera, Action: A Book Editor in the Land of Cinema

Tuesday December 4, 2012

The first in a series on working as an editor in the film industry. In 1966, my older sister snuck me into the Windsor Theatre to see an R-rated movie, A Man and a Woman, starring Anouk Aimée as a script girl and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a car racer. After that, whenever someone asked me […]

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Rosemary Shipton

A Changing Role for Editors

Wednesday December 12, 2012

It’s not all that long ago that editors were invisible or, if their presence was recognized, dismissed as nitpickers or as dangerous meddlers in the creative writing process. “Let’s Kill All the Copyeditors,” ran one newspaper headline. Renowned professor Jacques Barzun railed against the errors that “tone deaf” editors introduced to his texts in his […]

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