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What is the role of the copyeditor?
2 min read · Sep 12th · Copyeditors collaborate with authors to create the best possible version of a text, and they share with authors the goal and responsibility of improving the readability and usefulness of a text. In…
The Atlantic
Dan Frank Was a Gifted and Generous Editor
May 25th · I don’t know how many people in the reading public would recognize his name. Millions of them should.
arrantpedantry.com
What I Learned from Teaching Editing
4 min read · Mar 22nd · Last semester I finally had the opportunity to do something I’d thought about for many years: teach a college class. I’d applied for a full-time teaching professor job before, but IR…
sesquiotic.com
A day in the life of an editor
20+ min read · Jan 8th · 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
3 min read · Jan 3rd · 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
4 min read · 2020-03-10 · We need your help to keep this bus gassed up.
Literary Hub
Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors
7 min read · 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
5 min read · From 2019 · 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
5 min read · 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
9 min read · From 2019 · 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
5 min read · From 2019 · 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
7 min read · From 2019 · 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
3 min read · From 2019 · 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…
Guardian Books
Beyond cuts: the many roles of a writer's editor
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
3 min read · From 2018 · Popular review website GearJam.com “said goood bye to there steemed copyeditor” Devin Warren because of falling ad revenue.
