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Heather Romanowski

Four Tips for Editing Science Fiction

January 16, 2025 by Heather Romanowski | 2 Comments on Four Tips for Editing Science Fiction

Science fiction has been around for more than a century and has continued to evolve decade by decade.  From Dragonriders of Pern to Gideon the Ninth, there is a robust science fiction industry, which is a lot to take in. It can be pretty daunting to step into a space with so much going on. […]

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Gaby Balan

L’Hebdomadaire des réviseurs Welcomes a New Managing Editor

January 9, 2025 by Gaby Balan | 2 Comments on L’Hebdomadaire des réviseurs Welcomes a New Managing Editor

Happy New Year, readers! If your New Year’s resolution includes doing some professional development en français, you’re in luck! The French-language “sister site” to The Editors’ Weekly will be rolling out more content in 2025, so make sure you’re subscribed to posts at l’Hebdomadaire des réviseurs. In the meantime, we invite you to get to […]

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Sydney Jarrard

Catalogue Editing: Three Tips for Success

November 21, 2024 by Sydney Jarrard | 2 Comments on Catalogue Editing: Three Tips for Success

Holiday catalogues are hitting your mailbox and online gift guides are popping up across your social media feeds. Who’s behind those publications, making sure prices are up to date, product names are accurate and merchandise pictures match the copy? It’s an editor, of course. Here are some tips for ensuring your catalogue is error-free:  Create […]

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Alexa Tanen

Tips for Editors New to Horror

October 31, 2024 by Alexa Tanen | Leave a Comment

In honour of the final day of spooky season, here are some great tips for editors who want to explore the haunting world of horror literature.  Focus on atmosphere The setting is important in every story, but more so for horror. It’s quite hard to scare readers, so authors must rely heavily on the ambience, […]

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Tim Green

AI as a Tool in Engineering Editing

July 18, 2024 by Tim Green | 1 Comment on AI as a Tool in Engineering Editing

I am an editor and professional engineer. I teach other engineers how to write good engineering reports. In every session, students ask about the role of AI, if any, in the writing/editing process.  So what does that mean for an editor editing engineering documents? Why people use AI AI is a tool. Why would an […]

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Andrew Park

Is It Okay to Be an Editorial Generalist?

February 22, 2024 by Andrew Park | Leave a Comment

Beginning freelance editors are often advised to “niche down.” The advantages of picking and sticking to an editorial niche are promoted in terms of acquiring expertise in a particular area, pursuing subjects that are your passion or plugging into networks of discipline-specific clients. Acknowledged expertise in a particular niche may also enable you to command […]

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Peter Erikson

Going Solo: Choosing to Freelance After Layoffs

October 19, 2023 by Peter Erikson | 3 Comments on Going Solo: Choosing to Freelance After Layoffs

The fateful call from the largest newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I worked as an editor, left me unprepared. It was the same for the other 17 people who were laid off this year, almost all of whom, like me, were over 40. It felt as though a door had been slammed […]

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Anne Louise Mahoney

Listening With the Heart: Editing Indigenous Manuscripts

September 12, 2017 by Anne Louise Mahoney | 6 Comments on Listening With the Heart: Editing Indigenous Manuscripts

A Quill and Quire article popped up in my Twitter feed in late June: “Humber becomes new home for Indigenous Editors Circle.” I was thrilled that the Circle had found a home at Humber College’s Lakeshore campus in Toronto’s west end. Even better: a workshop on editing Indigenous manuscripts was being held in mid-August. I […]

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Cathy McPhalen

Editing Niches: Grant Applications in Scientific Research

January 31, 2017 by Cathy McPhalen | 4 Comments on Editing Niches: Grant Applications in Scientific Research

Cynics call it science fiction — the planned research that is described in applications for scientific grants. But I love good science fiction, and I love reading the amazing research stories of these scientists. Luckily, more researchers are appreciating good editing in the increasingly fierce competition for research funding. What kinds of editing do researchers […]

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