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Rosemary Shipton

Editors and Self-Publishing Authors

juin 25, 2013 by Rosemary Shipton | 15 commentaires sur Editors and Self-Publishing Authors

As editors, we must break out of our anonymous shell and shout our virtues loudly and clearly for writers to hear. We’ve all heard the stories: a few authors who self-publish do extremely well, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, while the majority have little success, bringing in less than $500 all told. […]

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Iva Cheung

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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Wilf Popoff

WASTED WORDS: A World Without Problems

juin 11, 2013 by Wilf Popoff | Un commentaire sur WASTED WORDS: A World Without Problems

“Houston we have a challenge!” “This is Houston Apollo. What do you mean by challenge?” “A power drop in one of the two main electrical circuits.” “That’s a problem Apollo. Can’t copy challenge.” I’ve altered parts of this celebrated exchange from 43 years ago to support my case. At the time challenge was a word […]

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Melva McLean

Continuity in Film and Fiction

juin 4, 2013 by Melva McLean

Movies are usually shot in location order, not narrative order, which makes physical continuity important. Last week I was watching my favourite crime show, and the female lead wore a blue shirt in an interrogation scene. The camera caught the cop’s dialogue in close up, then cut to a close up of the bad guy, […]

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Kate Icely

DISPATCHES 4: What’s an Intern Worth?

mai 28, 2013 by Kate Icely | 2 commentaires sur DISPATCHES 4: What’s an Intern Worth?

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 I started at Random House Canada. With so many interns coming in (up to eight a year in […]

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Dominique Fortier

La langue de départ et la langue d’arrivée d’un texte en français et en anglais : comment ça marche

mai 22, 2013 by Dominique Fortier | Un commentaire sur La langue de départ et la langue d’arrivée d’un texte en français et en anglais : comment ça marche

À quel moment et de quelle manière la révision française se met-elle en branle dans le processus de publication d’un document bilingue? LANGUE DE DÉPART OU D’ORIGINE D’UN TEXTE Comme tous les textes provenant du gouvernement du Canada doivent être publiés dans les deux langues officielles, le français et l’anglais, il faut que le processus […]

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Karen Virag

GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Whom—don’t leave us! We hardly knew ye!

mai 14, 2013 by Karen Virag | 2 commentaires sur GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Whom—don’t leave us! We hardly knew ye!

In the April 2013 Atlantic magazine, writer Megan Garber gleefully wrote: “Whom, I am thrilled to inform you, is dying.” And though I agree that whom seems to be going the way of the floppy disk, I don’t share Garber’s glee. Perhaps it’s because I think that grammatical inflection (when words change form to reflect […]

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Lana Okerlund

What Do Editors Need To Know Now?

mai 7, 2013 by Lana Okerlund | 2 commentaires sur 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 forms of reading and […]

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Kate Icely

DISPATCHES 3: An Intern’s Survival Guide

mai 1, 2013 by Kate Icely | 4 commentaires sur DISPATCHES 3: An Intern’s Survival Guide

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 make a good impression, but, at the same time, interns’ skills are only just developing, and they have […]

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Dominique Fortier

LA RÉVISION FRANÇAISE : Comment est-ce qu’on devient réviseure?

avril 24, 2013 by Dominique Fortier | 6 commentaires sur LA RÉVISION FRANÇAISE : Comment est-ce qu’on devient réviseure?

<< Je suis arrivé à la chanson par l’écriture. >> ― Gilles Vigneault, Le Devoir On arrive souvent là où on est par un chemin détourné. Pour ma part, je suis venue à la révision par la coordination d’expositions. Cela semble un peu étrange, mais à bien y regarder, cela s’explique. On est des êtres […]

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