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Top 5 Questions About Editing (Answered by a Former Editor)
I’m often surprised by how much confusion there is around editing in the world of writers. Not only is there occasionally animosity between writers and editors (editors make suggestions to change our work, after all), but there also seems to be a distinct lack of clarity when it comes to exactly what it is that [...]
5 Grammar Resources to Keep Your Skills Top-Notch
Last week I sent an email to a co-worker with a typo in the subject line, and she gleefully let me know about it the next time we spoke on the phone: Co-worker: “I love it when you make typos.” Me: “What?! Why?” Co-worker: “Because, you’re an editor and you make typos. It makes me [...]
Advice for Aspiring Authors from Susan M. Toy
I am super-excited to introduce you to my friend and fellow book addict, Susan M. Toy. Susan has worked in the publishing industry since 1978, starting as a bookseller and moving on to become an award-winning publishing sales rep, a literacy teacher, and now a writer and promoter through her own company, Alberta Books Canada. [...]
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Editing and My Love for the Semicolon
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been editing (and editing, and editing, and editing) two short stories that I plan to submit to a journal. For my final two passes this week I focused exclusively on polishing my grammar and punctuation to perfection, and discovered something strange: I go through punctuation phases. Does this happen [...]
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