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Karen Virag

Gettable Grammar: Taking Issue with “Issues”

July 11, 2013 by Karen Virag | 4 Comments on Gettable Grammar: Taking Issue with “Issues”

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. I think I remember the first time I heard the word issues used as a synonym for problems. I was watching a long-forgotten television sitcom, and one character commented on another’s weird behaviour by saying, “She has issues.” She overenunciated the […]

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Kate Icely

Dispatches 4: What’s an Intern Worth?

May 28, 2013 by Kate Icely | 2 Comments on Dispatches 4: What’s an Intern Worth?

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. So now that you know what editorial interns do and you have some tips to get you started, I’m sure you’re wondering how the editorial staff really feels about interns. This question was burning in my mind when […]

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Lana Okerlund

What Do Editors Need To Know Now?

May 7, 2013 by Lana Okerlund | 2 Comments on What Do Editors Need To Know Now?

The volatile state of the publishing industry today — and, by extension, the editing profession — can sometimes feel pretty daunting. Digital disruptions to the book, magazine and newspaper segments of the industry in particular are like an ongoing series of earthquake tremors beneath what previously felt like steady ground. Technological innovations have brought new […]

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Kate Icely

Dispatches 3: An Intern’s Survival Guide

May 1, 2013 by Kate Icely | 4 Comments on Dispatches 3: An Intern’s Survival Guide

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. For all the good that comes out of an internship, sometimes being an intern can be tough. Interns are dropped into a completely new environment where everyone has more experience than they do. It’s important that they […]

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Dispatches 2: What’s in an Internship?

April 2, 2013 by Kate Icely | 5 Comments on Dispatches 2: What’s in an Internship?

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. When I enrolled at Ryerson in the fall of 2011, I took as many editing courses as I could. Copy editing, proofreading, grammar, substantive editing…. The more courses I took, the more I loved working with words. […]

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Dispatches from an Editorial Intern

March 5, 2013 by Kate Icely | 10 Comments on Dispatches from an Editorial Intern

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is the first in a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. Outside looking in I decided I wanted to go into publishing in early 2011. It was a good solution to my problems at the time. Problems like why I didn’t want to fill out […]

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Nancy Flight

Are Book Editors an Endangered Species?

January 29, 2013 by Nancy Flight | 4 Comments on Are Book Editors an Endangered Species?

In December 2012, the world was supposed to end, the U.S. was expected to fall off the so-called fiscal cliff, and some commentators had already pronounced Canadian publishing dead or nearly so. As we know, the world did not end, and the U.S. has avoided plunging over the fiscal cliff, at least for the time […]

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