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Review: QuickStyle from Hazel Bird

Thursday October 23, 2025

As a professional editor, I am always on the lookout for ways to increase my efficiency and improve communication with clients. So when I learned about QuickStyle — a style sheet template that can be tailored to fit any project and client — I was intrigued. Hazel Bird and I are colleagues at the Chartered […]

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Anita Jenkins

A Promising New Editor

Tuesday June 12, 2018

Letitia Henville of Vancouver, B.C., is the recipient of the Editors Canada 2017 Claudette Upton Scholarship,* which recognizes promising emerging editors. The “promising” part of the description definitely applies to Letitia. The “emerging” part, not so much: she has hit the ground running. Like many editors, Letitia entered the profession in a roundabout way. In […]

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Erin Brenner

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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Ruth E. Thaler-Carter

Tackling That First Draft: How Editors Can Help Nervous Writers

Thursday September 25, 2025

© Ruth E. Thaler-Carter Coming up with a first draft is a challenge for almost every writer, even those with years of experience and walls full of awards. Few writers can sit down, flex those typing fingers, relax the shoulders and pour out a word-perfect manuscript on the first try. These tips for dealing with […]

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Tracey Anderson

Check Mates: Create a Checklist as an Editing Tool

Tuesday May 2, 2017

I admit it: I’m a (sometimes obsessive) list maker. I make them for all kinds of things: to-do lists, grocery lists, vacation packing lists; my list of lists goes on and on. It’s no surprise, then, that I often use an editing checklist. For me, a checklist is a useful tool for staying organized and […]

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Tim Green

Podcasting for Fun and Fortune: Part 1 of 2

Tuesday April 20, 2021

Okay, full disclosure up front: I haven’t exactly figured out the “fortune” part. But making podcasts can be a lot of fun! And being able to make a podcast adds an extra dimension to your editorial skills. As a budding writer with a sheaf of completed short stories in hand, I wondered about the next […]

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Suzanne Bowness

Meeting “In Real Life”: Conference 2023

Thursday March 2, 2023

Raise your hand if you’ve missed meeting in real life (or IRL, as the social media specialists say it). Me too. That’s why we decided to dip our toes into the world of in-person conferences after two years of virtual success, planning a two-day event to be held June 17–18, 2023, at Toronto Metropolitan University […]

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Laura Bontje

Test Yourself: Looking Back on 2024

Thursday December 5, 2024

Pop quiz! How well do you remember the tips you’ve learned in 2024? I’ve pulled some questions from a selection of this year’s posts about editing tools, Editors Canada and editorial niches. If you need a refresher, you can help each other out in the comments or find the answer in the original post (each […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Working With Authors

Tuesday November 6, 2018

Editors make decisions all the time as they edit, but the most important judgment call of all is how to work best with each individual author. No one-size-fits-all solution will do. Most commonly, editors make their corrections with track changes, write questions and comments for the author in the margins, and describe their overall approach […]

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Tracey Anderson

“I have come a long way from peddling poems for pennies in downtown Winnipeg”: An Interview with Joshua Whitehead

Tuesday April 6, 2021

Joshua Whitehead (he/him) is a Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is currently a Ph.D. candidate, lecturer, and Killam scholar at the University of Calgary, where he studies Indigenous literatures and cultures with a focus on gender and sexuality. He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer and Jonny Appleseed and the […]

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