Appreciate Your Copyeditor
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Longreads
Strong Writer-Editor Partnerships Create the Best Stories, As This Extended Bus Metaphor Will Prove
Longreads
4 min read · 12 saves · Mar 10th · We need your help to keep this bus gassed up.
Literary Hub
Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors
Literary Hub
6 min read · 10 saves · 2019-12-02 · My day begins by re-reading what I wrote the day before; when I finish the last sentence of the last chapter, I will have another go at the first sentence of the first. There is not, in my experien…
Jane Friedman
Copyediting Jobs: How to Estimate Hours and Pricing
Jane Friedman
5 min read · 12 saves · 2019-08-21 · Carol Saller · Copy editors are known for perfectionism. But while there’s no end to the fussing you can do, there’s a limit to what someone will pay you to do it.
The New Yorker
Dropped Hyphens, Split Infinitives, and Other Thrilling Developments from the 2019 American Copy Editors Society Conference
The New Yorker
4 min read · 19 saves · 2019-02-09 · You could feel the excitement in the room when a slide appeared with the heading “HYPHENS!”
cmosshoptalk.com
Marilyn Schwartz and Erika Bűky talk about the new Copyeditor’s Handbook and Copyeditor’s Workbook
cmosshoptalk.com
9 min read · 2019-05-21 · Chicago Manual · Since it was first published almost twenty years ago, The Copyeditor’s Handbook has served as both textbook and guide for copyeditors in book publishing and corporate communications. The revised…
Literary Hub
The Comma Queen and the Internet’s Copy Chief on What Matters to a Copyeditor
Literary Hub
4 min read · 19 saves · 2019-05-01 · We asked Mary Norris, The New Yorker’s “comma queen” and author, most recently, of Greek to Me, and Benjamin Dreyer, copy chief of Random House and author of Dreyer’s Englis…
Longreads
Editors Thinking About Editing at the AWP Conference
Longreads
7 min read · 13 saves · 2019-04-17 · Aaron Gilbreath · The only way to work as an editor and a writer is to continue learning from other editors and writers.
3quarksdaily.com
Everyone Needs an Editor
3quarksdaily.com
2 min read · 2019-04-15 · Gabrielle Durham · by Gabrielle C. Durham Have you ever been asked to donate to the worthy cause of sending the Lady Loins to the state semi-finals? I have, and I think I gave a couple bucks because of the doubtlessly…
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Guardian Books
Beyond cuts: the many roles of a writer's editor
Guardian Books
5 min read · From 2017 · Nell Frizzell: Novelist Eleanor Catton and her editor Max Porter's alliance shows how much more than wielding a blade goes into this relationship
The Hard Times
Website Getting on Just Fine After Laying of Copyeditor
The Hard Times
3 min read · From 2018 · Tyler Lebens · Popular review website GearJam.com “said goood bye to there steemed copyeditor” Devin Warren because of falling ad revenue.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Blessed Are teh Copy Editors
The Chronicle of Higher Education
2 min read · From 2017 · Copy editors AWOL? The Washington Post was embarrassed this year when it placed the wrong gender symbol on Page One of its Express. In a recent Lingua Franca post, I had reason to mention Rogue…
