Auteur : Iva Cheung

Before becoming an independent publishing consultant, Iva Cheung served as editor and editorial coordinator at D&M Publishers. Iva is a Certified Professional Editor and a winner of EAC’s Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence, and she blogs about editing and publishing on her website.
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Going Out of Style

juin 18, 2013 by Iva Cheung | Un commentaire sur Going Out of Style

It’s house style. I don’t think I fully appreciated the power of that sentence until I could no longer use it. As editors we’re constantly striving to balance the needs of the publisher, author and reader, but with the growth of self- and custom publishing, the needs of the publisher are becoming irrelevant in more […]

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What does your markup say about you?

mars 19, 2013 by Iva Cheung | 5 commentaires sur What does your markup say about you?

A friend of mine was venting to me about his old boss, who used to look over his reports. Whenever his boss found an error, he’d not only circle it but also emphasize his discovery with an exclamation point—a practice that drove my buddy nuts. Encoded within this tiny mark of punctuation was his micromanaging […]

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