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Ruth E. Thaler-Carter

Ruth E. Thaler-Carter: An Editor’s Top 3

Tuesday April 12, 2022

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Ruth E. Thaler-Carter has been managing and speaking about websites for several years, for both her own ventures and those of her clients. Her in-person and virtual presentations about editors’ websites have been popular with several professional […]

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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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Elliott Silverstein

Relational Editing

Thursday June 4, 2026

While there are many different ways to be a writer, writing tends to be understood and represented as a solitary practice. Many writers and non-writers alike have cultivated mental images of the archetypal writer typing away late into the night or in the early morning in an isolated cabin in the middle of the woods. […]

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Editing and the Art of Ikea Furniture Building

Tuesday October 15, 2019

A recent move left my husband and me needing new furniture. Armed with an Ikea gift card, we chose some pieces online. Six flat-packs of furniture arrived a few weeks later, and we got cracking on assembly. As we pieced the furniture together slat by slat, dowel by dowel, I simultaneously felt we were making […]

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Virginia Durksen

The Inner Editor: Introvert, Know Thyself

Tuesday November 8, 2016

Just after parlour games went out of fashion, but before Facebook, a self-employed editor might have used her idle hours for professional developments and introspections of various sorts. In particular, one such editor might have noticed that her clients had entire Human Resources departments dedicated to circulating questionnaires to help people realize who they were […]

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Margaret Sadler

The Weird and the Wonderful: The Art of Selecting Clients

Tuesday January 24, 2017

What do you do when a clearly weird and off-balance writer asks for your professional services? “Run!” is the response I got from several editor colleagues, and that has been my gut reaction, too. Such projects can often feel particularly intriguing. And sometimes there’s a sense that good money is there. But then the warning […]

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Jennifer D. Foster

The Benefits of Mentorship

Tuesday November 23, 2021

Being a freelance editor and writer is — more often than not — a solo experience, and participating in mentorships can help ease the sense of isolation many of us experience. That’s one of the reasons I became a mentor a decade ago. I’ve been mentoring novice and/or transitioning editors via Editors Canada since 2012, […]

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Mourning the Demise of Newsroom Copy Editors

Tuesday February 16, 2016

I was fortunate to get my initial on-the-job training in journalism in the days when writers worked with desk editors, copy editors and proofreaders. At least three sets of eyes perused every story after it had been written, and sometimes four or five. Three or more brains worked on massaging and polishing copy and checking […]

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Heidi Waechtler

On Community and Citizenship: How the Claudette Upton Scholarship Helped Bring My Career Into Focus

Tuesday August 7, 2018

I received the Claudette Upton Scholarship* in 2012 at a critical point in my career path: I was nearing the completion of my Master of Publishing coursework at Simon Fraser University and preparing to move from Vancouver to Toronto to take on a summer editorial internship at McClelland & Stewart. Looking back, six years later, […]

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