by Susannah Noel | Jul 20, 2019 | Inspiration
In March 2019, I went to the ACES conference in Providence, RI. I met many lovely fellow editors, including Emily King. Emily was kind enough to answer a few of my questions about her life as an editor. Emily offers line editing, copyediting, and proofreading for a...
by Nancy Marriott | Jul 2, 2019 | News & Announcements
Summer has arrived—at least, judging by the vibrant green foliage and fragrant lilacs in bloom outside my office window here in Montpelier, Vermont. Susannah and I are glad for the temporary end to braving icy roads and white-out conditions to get to our local evening...
by Sheryl Rapée-Adams | Jun 21, 2019 | Inspiration
I was the eleven-year-old miscreant with a purple Sharpie correcting restaurant menus, school textbooks, and the science fiction novels on my parents’ bookshelves. In the 1980s, my college English professor, author Evelyn Wilde Mayerson, told me I’d make a good...
by Ann Kellett | Jan 19, 2019 | Inspiration
Editor’s note: Texan Ann Kellett (annkellettediting.com) has been a full-time, award-winning editor for more than thirty years. The business cards she ordered for her new focus on developmental editing—with the tagline “I slog through your book’s substance and...
by Zora Vermilya | Aug 30, 2018 | Editing Nuts & Bolts, Inspiration
Editor’s note: Zora is our summer intern. In exchange for marketing and social media help, we’re teaching her about developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, and proofreading. Zora majors in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Editing is an...
by Nancy Marriott | Jul 9, 2018 | News & Announcements
On June 16, 2018, Susannah Noel and I held a day-long training at the Hampton Inn in Colchester, Vermont: Getting Started as a Freelance Book Editor. After enjoying a full roster of lectures, self-assessments, quizzes, and exercises, our fifteen participants ended the...
by Susannah Noel | Jun 7, 2018 | Editing Nuts & Bolts
Most of my career, I’ve been a copyeditor for large NYC publishers, an intellectually stimulating but also somewhat straightforward task. It starts with this injunction: A copyeditor must never fix or improve the author’s style. (What is style? See Dave...
by Nancy Marriott | Apr 23, 2018 | Inspiration
It was early Sunday morning, and the rain-slicked Pacific Coast Highway was relatively empty. Luckily, there were few cars coming over the hill behind me when I hit that pool of water and put my car into a ninety-degree tailspin, jettisoning me toward the guard rail...
by Nancy Marriott | Apr 23, 2018 | Editing Nuts & Bolts, What Would the Expert Book Editor Do?
It happens all the time. A prospective client contacts me about their book, wanting my book coaching or editing services to help in some phase of its completion. But their request is vague, not tailor-made for my packages and rates. They only know what they want, not...
by Susannah Noel | Feb 21, 2018 | Inspiration
“Can anyone find the mistake?” Mrs. Bressette, tall and slim with close-cropped black hair, pointed to a picture of a construction site with a yellow sign in front that read, DEVELOPEMENT COMING SOON. We stared at the book. We were the advanced spellers, sitting at...
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