Appreciate Your Copyeditor
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sesquiotic.com
A day in the life of an editor
sesquiotic.com
20+ min read · 21 saves · Jan 4th · So you want to be an editor? Are you ready for the editor’s life? Are you ready to hoist your pen (I mean computer), haul up the manuscript, and brave the waves of prose? Or maybe you’re already an…
The New York Times
Because of an Editing Error
The New York Times
3 min read · 33 saves · Jan 3rd · David Vecsey · Blunders, gaffes and terrible math skills, written in permanent ink.
Longreads
Strong Writer-Editor Partnerships Create the Best Stories, As This Extended Bus Metaphor Will Prove
Longreads
4 min read · 12 saves · 2020-03-10 · We need your help to keep this bus gassed up.
Literary Hub
Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors
Literary Hub
7 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
5 min read · 19 saves · From 2019 · 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
5 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
3 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
