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Jasmine Peteran

Book Review: Networking for Freelance Editors

février 8, 2022 by Jasmine Peteran | 2 commentaires sur Book Review: Networking for Freelance Editors

For many of us out here in the freelance world, networking can feel like a chore. But Networking for Freelance Editors: Practical Strategies for Networking Success taught me two key things that turned a chore into a worthwhile challenge. For starters, activities I’m already doing willingly and regularly can become effective networking tactics with the […]

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Amanda Goldrick-Jones

The Student Affiliate Book Club Gets Subversive

décembre 7, 2021 by Amanda Goldrick-Jones

The brand-new student affiliate book club chose Carol Fisher Saller’s The Subversive Copy Editor (2nd edition, 2016) as its first book for discussion. We were intensely curious — especially those in the club who are early-career editors — about what “subversive” editing meant. In October, we met online to review “Part 1: Working with the […]

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Ellie Barton

Book Review | What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing

octobre 17, 2017 by Ellie Barton | 4 commentaires sur Book Review | What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing

What’s not to like about What Editors Do? This collection of essays traces the role of book editors from acquisition to publication and samples niches like editing genre fiction and working with self-publishing authors. What’s more, the 27 contributors represent a “who’s who” of American publishing: Betsy Lerner, Carol Fisher Saller, Jonathan Karp, Scott Norton, […]

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Sue Archer

Review: The Complete Canadian Book Editor by Leslie Vermeer

novembre 29, 2016 by Sue Archer | 3 commentaires sur Review: The Complete Canadian Book Editor by Leslie Vermeer

When I first heard about The Complete Canadian Book Editor, I couldn’t help but be intrigued by the notion of a “complete” resource on book editing. I edit the works of self-publishing authors, so my knowledge of the world of traditional book publishing is limited — gained mostly through conversations with other editors and my […]

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Melva McLean

Movie Review: Genius

juillet 12, 2016 by Melva McLean | 4 commentaires sur Movie Review: Genius

Genius is a movie about the relationship between writer Thomas Wolfe and editor Maxwell Perkins and is based primarily on A. Scott Berg’s biography, “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius” (Riverhead Trade). Perkins worked for Charles Scribner’s Sons for over 30 years. Like Canada’s Ellen Seligman, Perkins was an exacting editor. Like Seligman, his meticulous attention […]

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Ruth E. Thaler-Carter

Facts and Fiction: Grammar Vampires and True Crime

juin 30, 2015 by Ruth E. Thaler-Carter | 3 commentaires sur Facts and Fiction: Grammar Vampires and True Crime

The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed By Karen Elizabeth Gordon. Pantheon Books, 1984, 1993.  Wild, wacky, inventive grammar guide continues to educate and amuse The opportunity to review the new edition (1993) of Karen Elizabeth Gordon’s The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar […]

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Sue Archer

Review: The Editor’s Companion by Steve Dunham

mars 3, 2015 by Sue Archer | 10 commentaires sur Review: The Editor’s Companion by Steve Dunham

When I first read the title of this book, I thought it would be a comprehensive “how to” guide for people learning how to edit, like The Copyeditor’s Handbook by Amy Einsohn. The focus of this book is somewhat different. The Editor’s Companion is aimed at professionals who already know something about communications, but are […]

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Susan Glickman

Facts and Fiction: Artful Flight

février 3, 2015 by Susan Glickman

I’d like to recommend two of my favourite books for writers, one ostensibly fiction and the other, not. Except that both are so idiosyncratic, so luminously zany, so full of revelatory insights, humour and poignancy, that generic boundaries seem to melt and what you take away from each is reaffirmation of not only why you […]

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Anita Jenkins

Facts and Fiction: English, Cows and the TLS

juillet 2, 2014 by Anita Jenkins | Un commentaire sur Facts and Fiction: English, Cows and the TLS

This is the first in our «Facts and Fiction» series of mini-book reviews. Each blog entry will briefly describe one non-fiction and one fiction title that might interest editors and other lovers of language. The Story of English By Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil and William Cran (third edition). Penguin, 2002. I’ve always loved this book, […]

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Anita Jenkins

Why Reading Is a Great Hobby for an Editor/Writer

juin 10, 2014 by Anita Jenkins | 11 commentaires sur Why Reading Is a Great Hobby for an Editor/Writer

The biographies of skilled communicators often reveal a lifelong, serious reading habit. I don’t think this is a coincidence. I have read constantly and voraciously since the age of five, and I give that habit (addiction?) a lot of the credit for the writing and editing skills I have developed. Reading makes you smart Those […]

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