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Happy Holidays and Year in Review

Tuesday December 19, 2017

Dear Readers, We’ve had some fantastic content on the blog this year, from Marianne Grier’s description of her reintroduction to Canadian English to Marion Soublière’s report after attending an editing conference in Scotland. We enjoyed Brendan O’Brien’s inaugural post about being a reluctant editor and were fascinated to learn about Dracula puzzles from Sara Goodchild. We’ve […]

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Judy Phillips

What Does a Recipe Editor Do?

Tuesday April 19, 2022

Whether for soufflé, soup, salsa or something else altogether, a culinary recipe is essentially a how-to document. As a form of technical editing, then, recipe editing is all about ensuring that the user (the reader) can successfully assemble the product (a dish). As a recipe editor, it’s my responsibility (along with the author’s, of course) […]

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Sue Archer

Review: The Complete Canadian Book Editor by Leslie Vermeer

Tuesday November 29, 2016

When I first heard about The Complete Canadian Book Editor, I couldn’t help but be intrigued by the notion of a “complete” resource on book editing. I edit the works of self-publishing authors, so my knowledge of the world of traditional book publishing is limited — gained mostly through conversations with other editors and my […]

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Ellie Barton

Book Review | What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing

Tuesday October 17, 2017

What’s not to like about What Editors Do? This collection of essays traces the role of book editors from acquisition to publication and samples niches like editing genre fiction and working with self-publishing authors. What’s more, the 27 contributors represent a “who’s who” of American publishing: Betsy Lerner, Carol Fisher Saller, Jonathan Karp, Scott Norton, […]

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Tilman Lewis

Professional Editorial Standards: What Does an Editor Do Today?

Tuesday January 29, 2019

Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES) describe the responsibilities of an editor. The scope of PES is broad; this series explores how the standards apply to a variety of editing contexts. I’ve always found the granularity of PES daunting; I’m more inclined to “find the voice and let it sing.” But comparing the 2016 revision […]

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Year in Review: The Best of 2015

Tuesday January 26, 2016

The new year is well underway, and we’ve seized the opportunity to look back at how 2015 progressed on the blog. These are some of our favourite posts from the year: Wasted Words: A Compulsion to Exaggerate, by Wilf Popoff. Whatever became of understatement? In My Opinion, by Susan Glickman. There are a heck of […]

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Audrey Jamieson

Encouraging Coworkers to See the Benefits of Editing

Thursday March 9, 2023

Working as an in-house editor often means you will be editing the work of untrained writers. You may come across colleagues who don’t want to be writing in the first place, so how do you convince them that your editing services are valuable? Sometimes you can’t. Sometimes people reject edits and say, “Scrap the whole […]

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Adrienne Montgomerie

Crystal Clear: PES Unscramble the Publishing Puzzle!

Thursday April 25, 2024

In a field where being clear and consistent is everything, it’s surprisingly hard to get everyone on the same page about what any one role or stage in publishing involves. Enter the Professional Editorial Standards (PES)! Rather than getting bogged down in grammar rules, standards like this newly overhauled set are about the kinds of […]

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David Antrobus

The Editor’s Fedora Part 3

Monday March 10, 2014

Now we arrive at the crucial topic of cost, and the seemingly arbitrary variations in same. Some editors are so brilliant that they really can and do charge top dollar. I know someone who can quote $5,000 for editing an 80,000-word manuscript. Before you gag on that, bear in mind that editing at that rarefied […]

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Anita Jenkins

Iva Cheung: Winner of the 2019 Karen Virag Award

Tuesday July 23, 2019

The annual Karen Virag Award recognizes exceptional efforts by an individual or organization to raise the profile of editing in their community. A highly accomplished member of Editors Canada, Virag died in 2014. Recipients to date are Nancy Flight, Virginia Durksen, James Harbeck and Iva Cheung. Editors Canada’s awards season always presents the judges with […]

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