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...
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 | 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 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...
