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...
