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Michelle Waitzman

Five Tips for Creating a Newsletter People Will Actually Read

October 10, 2024 by Michelle Waitzman | Leave a Comment

Michelle Waitzman will be discussing more about using plain language principles to improve newsletters — as well as professional emails and presentations — in her webinar “Newsletters, Emails and Presentations: Improving the Tools of Business Communications” on October 29 at 1 pm ET. Marketing experts have been telling business owners and solopreneurs for years that […]

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Sohini Ghose

Sohini Ghose: An Editor’s Top 3

October 3, 2024 by Sohini Ghose | 2 Comments on Sohini Ghose: An Editor’s Top 3

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Sohini Ghose (she/her) is an editor with over fifteen years of international experience, having worked on an array of books with indie and major publishers, university presses, and debut and bestselling authors, including a Nobel Prize laureate. […]

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Laura Bontje

Discussion Scenario: Editing While Under the Weather

September 26, 2024 by Laura Bontje | 8 Comments on Discussion Scenario: Editing While Under the Weather

[Content note: This post contains non-graphic discussion of mild pneumonia.] By their very nature, dilemmas don’t offer a clear right answer. So this week, I’m turning the advice over to you. I’ll be honest: this has been a challenging September. I’m feeling much better now, but I spent the first part of the month exhausted […]

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Kay Pettigrew

Customer Service for Editors: “Saving the Table” When You Make a Mistake

September 12, 2024 by Kay Pettigrew | 4 Comments on Customer Service for Editors: “Saving the Table” When You Make a Mistake

Before striking out on my own as a freelance editor and writer, I worked in maybe 10,000 restaurants. I’ve since found there’s quite a lot of overlap between hospitality and editing — especially when it comes to making a mistake.  In both industries, our job is to finesse things to the point where the work […]

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