by Editorial Arts Academy | Feb 10, 2022 | Finding Work, Inspiration
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by editorial professional Jenny DeBell. I recently completed the copyediting course at Editorial Arts Academy in order to build skills I’ve developed more or less informally, and to help clarify some of the differences between...
by Editorial Arts Academy | Nov 30, 2021 | Business Talk, Inspiration
Want to win a copy of Dreyer's English or the Stet! card game? Join our December giveaway! Editor’s note: This is a guest post by editorial professional Caitlin O’Brien. No matter how much you love freelance book editing, or any kind of editing, or how...
by Susannah Noel | Jun 12, 2020 | Business Talk, Inspiration
Freelance book editors have a place in the fight against racism. First, we’re human, and all humans must participate. Second, we are uniquely suited to recognize the influence words have on readers, populations, and entire societies. This gives us additional...
by Nancy Marriott | Nov 6, 2019 | Inspiration
“Book editor.” The mere mention conjures up an image of an exalted creature who sits in a corner office of a Manhattan publishing house, madly editing great piles of manuscripts in a quest to create bestsellers, à la Maxwell Perkins. Celebrity editor Maxwell Perkins...
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 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...
