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Two trees (one reddish, one yellow) with leaves falling off them, signifying autumn. The sun is shining in the background.

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La Rentrée

Thursday September 18, 2025

The French language has a wonderful word for this time of year: la rentrée. Re-entering, not returning, not back to. The potential of the future. The potential to change and to have changed. The potential to develop and to learn new things. To approach things, both professional and personal, in a different way. To see […]

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An open book with a page vertically displayed, with a pair of glasses, an ink pot and quill, plus a rose and butterfly in the background. (Copyright: denayunebgt © 123RF.com)

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Susan Glickman

Poetry Moment: Dear Trees (Part Two)

Thursday February 26, 2026

Conversation with the Author Last week, in our post, Poetry Moment: Dear Trees, , we spoke with Susan Glickman about our trade as editors, client work and questioning the bigger picture. We continue our conversation here in Part Two. Q: From an editorial perspective, what are your thoughts on how the publishing industry can deal […]

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Filmstrip negatives overlaid upon a background script whose text is too obscured to read.

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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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A two-story house is burning, filled with flames that are coming out through the front porch, upstairs windows, and through the roof. Four firemen in gear, with their backs to us, are standing in the foreground, watching the fire.

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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: My Hit List

Tuesday February 5, 2013

Wasted Words is a series of musings on language and usage by editor emeritus Wilf Popoff. I have a dream: English users create their equivalent to the Académie Française to mind the language. I’m at the first hearing of this august body presenting a list of words I want banned. The English Academy must acquiesce if […]

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Getting an internship can lead to a job—but it might not be the job you were expecting.

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Kate Icely

DISPATCHES 7: Finding Work in Unexpected Places

Wednesday October 2, 2013

Getting an internship can lead to a job—but it might not be the job you were expecting. When I first started taking courses at Ryerson University, I didn’t have a clue about the variety of jobs available to me. I knew I could be an editorial assistant at a publishing company, but there were so […]

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Melva McLean

Writing Wrongs in Fiction

Tuesday September 6, 2016

Last month, Paul Cipywnyk wrote here about plausibility and continuity in novels. But what about in screenwriting? Realistic, plausible details and continuity are equally — sometimes more — important on screen, but it can be challenging to ensure them. Now, it doesn’t matter what you’re writing about or in what time period — the research […]

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Sharon Skage

Editing at the Legislature: A Look Inside the Hansard Office

Tuesday October 25, 2016

Ever wondered what it’s like to work as an editor at Hansard? Well, given that there are 15 Hansards published across the country, it depends on who you ask. The staffing, production processes and timelines vary from one jurisdiction to another, but here’s a quick snapshot of what it’s like in Alberta. Our production team […]

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Brendan O’Brien

Is It All About the Author?

Tuesday August 21, 2018

The prevailing orthodoxy in online editors’ groups, I have noticed, is one of huge respect for, and empathy with, the author. The author is king/queen. We, as editors, primarily serve the author’s vision, the author’s voice. However, in my own work (both in-house and freelance, primarily as a copyeditor of non-fiction), the emphasis has generally […]

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Person with their back to us meeting with another person in an online video chat.

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Letitia Henville

When Two Neurodivergent Minds Meet (Part 2)

Thursday December 4, 2025

A Virtual Assistant and an Editor Share Their Process Last week, I described why I decided to hire a virtual assistant (VA) in June 2025, and shared Melanie’s responses to my questions. This week, Melanie interviews me. Melanie Lobo: Our first conversation was on Reddit — what made you reach out to me? Letitia Henville: […]

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This image of an attractive woman looking through a magnifying glass with one eye is a metaphor for close scrutiny, a metaphor for this week’s post on The Editors’ Weekly, titled “What’s an editor to do?”, which looks at copyediting and questions how many or few changes an editor should suggest when copy editing a […]

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