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Editors and Their Clients

Tuesday January 13, 2015

Editors are shaped by their clients. Sure, we all share common knowledge, skills and talents, but we’re influenced by what our employers want from us. Over a period of years, that accumulated experience makes us the editors we are today. In recent posts to this site, Lori Burwash has described the challenges of writing and […]

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Laura Bontje

Preparing for Traditional Publishing: Tips from Agents and Editors

Thursday June 29, 2023

When a client comes to me for editing, one of my first questions is how they hope to publish. Why? Because an author who is self-publishing will use freelancers for each stage of the editing process, whereas an author who secures a traditional publishing contract will receive additional editing through their publisher. The journey to […]

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Sue Archer

EAC Conference Speaker Profile: Carol Saller

Tuesday June 2, 2015

Editing Goes Global is right around the corner! This week, the Editors’ Weekly is holding its final conversation with keynote speaker and editor extraordinaire Carol Saller. In addition to her keynote speech on “‘Subversive’ Editing: Or, What Bugs Editors and How to Fix It,” Carol will be co-delivering the session “Hiring Other Freelancers: Expanding Your […]

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Amanda Goldrick-Jones Anneline du Preez Laura Bontje Natalia Iwanek

Looking Ahead with The Editors’ Weekly, West Coast Editor and BoldFace

Thursday December 19, 2024

With 2025 on its way, the editors of three Editors Canada blogs have come together in a series of collaborative posts to reflect on our experiences. Part one appeared in West Coast Editor, the blog for Editors BC, and introduced more about the blogs and their editors. BoldFace, the official blog of Editors Toronto, shared […]

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Laura Bontje

Editing for Authors on a Budget

Thursday February 16, 2023

As a freelance fiction editor, I find it incredibly rewarding to help an author shape their story or find their voice. And as an author, I know firsthand how transformative the insights of a strong editor can be. But professional editing can be expensive, so what do you do when an author has a limited […]

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Frances Peck

On Editing an Editor: Leslie Vermeer and Frances Peck in Conversation

Tuesday March 8, 2022

Editing a first-time novelist calls for a blend of sharp-eyed clarity, cheerleading and hand-holding. What if the novelist is also an editor? As part of a series of blog posts featuring conversations between author-editors and their editors, The Editors’ Weekly asked two editors to reflect on their experience of working together. Frances Peck is a […]

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Tanya Procyshyn

Editing Goes Global Speaker Profile: Vanessa Ricci-Thode

Tuesday April 21, 2015

With Editing Goes Global mere months away, now is the perfect time to get better acquainted with our conference speakers. This week, Tanya Procyshyn from the Editors’ Weekly caught up with “word sorceress” Vanessa Ricci-Thode by email to chat about her upcoming sessions in Toronto and the world of self-publishing. Tanya Procyshyn: It seems you’ve had […]

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Jennifer Borgioli Binis

Book Review: The Art of Academic Editing

Thursday April 18, 2024

People find their way to developmental editing down any number of paths, and mine was paved by years as a professional development provider for K–12 teachers. I worked for a small consulting firm, and we regularly met to compare notes and collaborate. Over the years, we developed protocols, rules of thumb and even sentence starters […]

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Rosemary Shipton

What Should an Editor Be?

Tuesday January 7, 2014

We were nearing the end of a Stylistic Editing seminar — a group of about 30 people of varying ages and experience working in-house or freelance for book publishers, magazines, businesses or governments. A woman in the third row raised her hand: “In my work I’m the only editor,” she said, “so I don’t really […]

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Virginia Durksen

Interview With Dr. Suzanne M. Steele

Tuesday September 4, 2018

Part 1: Dr. Suzanne M. Steele, scholar and editor Dr. Suzanne Steele has built her career on words as a librarian, a war poet, a librettist, a teacher and an academic editor working with ESL writers who are often translating their ideas across cultures as well as languages. Virginia Durksen is the editor for Suzanne’s […]

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