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Becky Heaman

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Mary Rykov

septembre 28, 2021 by Becky Heaman

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, Becky Heaman shares the committee’s […]

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S. Robin Larin

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with James Harbeck

août 17, 2021 by S. Robin Larin | 5 commentaires sur Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with James Harbeck

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, S. Robin Larin shares the committee’s interview with […]

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Becky Heaman

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Amanda Lewis

juillet 13, 2021 by Becky Heaman

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. Amanda Lewis (Vancouver, British Columbia) received the […]

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Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Margo LaPierre

juin 15, 2021 by S. Robin Larin | 2 commentaires sur Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Margo LaPierre

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. Margo LaPierre was the winner of the 2019 Claudette Upton […]

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Natalia Iwanek

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Donna L. Dawson

avril 13, 2021 by Natalia Iwanek | Un commentaire sur Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Donna L. Dawson

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. Donna L. Dawson is the winner of […]

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Letitia Henville

How I’m Hiring a Student to Support My Freelance Editing Business

Décembre 8, 2020 by Letitia Henville

I’ve never been happy with the look of my website, shortishard.ca. Yet, I’ve never needed to update it, because I get all my work through referrals, word of mouth or my monthly column, Ask Dr Editor. In 2021, though, things are going to change: I’m hiring an undergraduate student to make my website finally look […]

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Erin Brenner

Erin Brenner: An Editor’s Top 3

septembre 8, 2020 by Erin Brenner | 2 commentaires sur Erin Brenner: An Editor’s Top 3

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Erin Brenner is an author and an award-winning copywriter who has been running her own business, Right Touch Editing, for more than a decade. Her company specializes in business publishing and indie books related to marketing and […]

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Anita Jenkins

Do Freelance Editors Know How to Work at Home?

septembre 1, 2020 by Anita Jenkins | 11 commentaires sur Do Freelance Editors Know How to Work at Home?

Many thousands of office employees who were forced to work from home because of COVID-19 will continue to do so. Only 36 per cent of Canadians anticipate returning to their “place of work” when the pandemic subsides, according to an Angus Reid study. Freelance editors have been working from home for years and, by and […]

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Jasmine Peteran

Transitioning Between the Home and the Home Office

juin 2, 2020 by Jasmine Peteran | 4 commentaires sur Transitioning Between the Home and the Home Office

Amid all the Zoom calls and email threads, I sit in my makeshift home office staring at the dust collecting on the windowsill. We’ve entered into uncharted territory, yet every day looks the same. I started my career with a love of language, of words and of writing, but over the last few weeks these […]

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Natalia Iwanek

Making the Shift from Student to Freelance Editor

mars 31, 2020 by Natalia Iwanek | 6 commentaires sur Making the Shift from Student to Freelance Editor

For novice editors, the transitional year from student to editor is often both remarkable and overwhelming. No amount of experience and education can prepare you for the phenomenon of imposter syndrome, the tendency to undervalue your work, and the persistent fear of failure. Above all, nothing quite prepares you for that first difficult client. Although […]

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Louise Harnby

Louise Harnby: An Editor’s Top 3

mars 10, 2020 by Louise Harnby | 2 commentaires sur Louise Harnby: An Editor’s Top 3

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with independent authors of commercial fiction, particularly crime, thriller and mystery writers. She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing […]

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Aaron Dalton

Checklists: Sharing Knowledge

novembre 5, 2019 by Aaron Dalton | 5 commentaires sur Checklists: Sharing Knowledge

I’ve spent most of my career in-house. Currently I work with dozens of individual authors from all across the organization on a diverse array of document types. Though our editorial team works as a pool, a certain degree of specialization is unavoidable. We need to be able to record and share institutional knowledge amongst ourselves […]

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Marion Soubliere

New Federal e-Commerce Site: Direct Sales, Clients Galore

septembre 25, 2018 by Marion Soublière | 4 commentaires sur New Federal e-Commerce Site: Direct Sales, Clients Galore

The Government of Canada is the first to admit that it’s not easy to do business with them. But change is on the horizon. The latest step toward simpler procurement involves replacing the buyandsell.gc.ca tendering site. In July 2018, the government awarded U.S.-based InfoSys Public Services a contract to build a new Amazon.com-like e-commerce site. Public […]

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Marion Soubliere

Perks of Being a Federal Supplier Aboard ProServices

mai 8, 2018 by Marion Soublière | 4 commentaires sur Perks of Being a Federal Supplier Aboard ProServices

The Government of Canada is eager to buy from small businesses. My 2017 post Winning Contracts With the Government of Canada explained how to register as a supplier to this annual $15-billion to $20-billion market. How to Market Your Services to the Feds, meanwhile, suggested ways to continually keep your small firm top-of-mind with federal buyers. […]

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Virginia Durksen

The Inner Editor: Please Allow Me To … Interrupt You

février 6, 2018 by Virginia Durksen | 12 commentaires sur The Inner Editor: Please Allow Me To … Interrupt You

On Facebook recently, a colleague reported being the victim of a phone hijacking. You might recognize the feeling. A potential client calls to ask about editing services and then spends the better part of an hour telling her story with barely a breath between sentences, leaving you with no room to speak. There it is. […]

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Brendan O’Brien

The Perils of Not Knowing

janvier 16, 2018 by Brendan O'Brien | 10 commentaires sur The Perils of Not Knowing

One of the downsides of freelance editing is that you’re not there (wherever “there” may be) to explain your thinking on occasions when it might be appropriate to do so. Furthermore, you’re probably unaware that such occasions have even arisen. When I had in-house jobs, I learned a lot from bosses and colleagues. In my […]

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Virginia Durksen

Revisiting the Inner Editor: December Is the Cruellest Month

novembre 28, 2017 by Virginia Durksen | 4 commentaires sur Revisiting the Inner Editor: December Is the Cruellest Month

Last year, we published this post on the freelancer’s holiday blues. This year, we’re following up with our readers. Have you implemented any of these ideas? Do you have other tips for avoiding the holiday lull? When projects disappear in other months, the freelance editor adjusts her schedule and cash flow projections and stoically reminds […]

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Marion Soubliere

How to Market Your Services to the Feds

mai 23, 2017 by Marion Soublière | 4 commentaires sur How to Market Your Services to the Feds

The Government of Canada, one of this country’s biggest markets, is eager to do business with the tiniest of firms. Its Office of Small and Medium Enterprises launched in 2005 to help small companies land contracts. And, after many attempts to simplify procurement, a new e-commerce web portal is planned that would feature catalogues of goods […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Succeeding as a Freelancer

mars 14, 2017 by Rosemary Shipton | 7 commentaires sur Succeeding as a Freelancer

The key to a successful freelance business is a steady supply of projects. First, decide how many hours a week you’d like to work — 20, 40 billable hours? — and then set out to achieve your goal. Your professional life and income will become almost predictable. Here are some suggestions. Develop a strong client […]

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Marion Soubliere

Winning Contracts With the Government of Canada

février 14, 2017 by Marion Soublière | 3 commentaires sur Winning Contracts With the Government of Canada

The federal government spends between $15 billion and $20 billion annually on goods and services, including editing and writing. Communication skills are in high demand. The government’s massive web renewal project faces much work ahead in streamlining 1,500 websites into one overarching website, Canada.ca. Small businesses across Canada, including solopreneurs, can contract directly to this […]

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Virginia Durksen

The Inner Editor: December Is the Cruellest — and Shortest — Month

Décembre 20, 2016 by Virginia Durksen | 11 commentaires sur The Inner Editor: December Is the Cruellest — and Shortest — Month

The little knot forming in your chest isn’t a reaction to the cold weather. It’s the freelance editor’s anxiety kicking in right on schedule, just before the holidays. When projects disappear in other months, the freelance editor adjusts her schedule and cash flow projections and stoically reminds herself that this month’s famine may well be […]

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Virginia Durksen

Myth: It Takes a Certain Personality to Become an Editor

mars 25, 2014 by Virginia Durksen | 4 commentaires sur Myth: It Takes a Certain Personality to Become an Editor

Any profession draws certain personality types to it more readily than others. But just as there’s no single lawyer or doctor or teacher type, there’s more than one editor type. Editors come in all sorts. Editors can be achievers, caretakers, managers, control freaks, idea generators, intellectuals, entrepreneurs — and are often a bit of everything […]

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Frances Peck

New Tax Guidelines for Self-Employed BC Editors

mars 26, 2013 by Frances Peck | 3 commentaires sur New Tax Guidelines for Self-Employed BC Editors

On April 1, 2013, the BC government will repeal the HST and return to the former GST + PST regime. What does that mean for self-employed editors? We’ve dug into the matter and are happy to share what we’ve found. Please note that these are our personal comments, not those of EAC. We are not […]

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