Publishing Trends

AUGUST 1, 2023

Artie Bennett , executive copy editor, will retire on November 10. The union writes in a document shared with publishers, “Many of our members can and should keep working under various other contracts” with a list of approved projects, including audiobooks. Mancini joined the Viking Children’s editorial team in the fall of 1985.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 16, 2023

Whether you want to edit for the world of academia, publishing, business, or for print or the web, there’s a freelance editor job up for grabs. Polished Paper Polished Paper edits a variety of documents from academic papers to screenplays.

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Grammar Underground

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

When references to the organization are scattered far apart within the document, scattered initials or references may fail to remind the reader of what organization you’re talking about. This does nothing but break up the flow of the writing and drive certain copy editors nuts.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 14, 2023

A lot of communication became through the written word, through documents. So fundamentally, it's the same process of you writing something, and then you sending it to your editor, and then they make some edits to that sentence. So writing, in general, became a lot more important. I mean, copyright feels like it's changing.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

MARCH 11, 2022

A Word document showing the first three book chapters and the list of all twenty-five chapter titles in the Navigation pane to the left of the document. TIP: Google Docs will give you a similar-looking list of chapters in what it calls a Document Outline pane if you assign heading styles.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 18, 2022

In MS Word, make sure the document header is visible. In the  free online version of MS Word , either click on the header tab in the top right of the document or go to the Insert menu and click on Header & Footer. To get the hang of format painting, experiment in a document that contains various styles and formats.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

APRIL 12, 2021

Many agents and editors post the format they prefer (or demand) on a “Submissions” page at their website. That’s why it’s smart to produce a generic document based on Chicago style (the style used by most US trade book publishers) that can be tweaked later if you receive more specific instructions. or other garble.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It may seem like an inconvenience, but it’s what novelists and journalists have always done, even in the days when it meant rooting through library catalogs in person or waiting for documents to arrive in the mail. Solid research is what gives authority and authenticity to the best writing.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JANUARY 16, 2023

That nihgt we poured over the documents for some kind of clue (Word catches the misspelling of “night” but fails to suggest correcting “poured” to “pored.” (“These words work best when connected with a hyphen: brewers-built.”). She don’t need advice from me. Double-check that you’re sticking to singular or plural.”).

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JANUARY 1, 2022

I retain the documentation. This post originally appeared at The Chicago Manual of Style Online Shop Talk blog on October 19 2021, © University of Chicago. * The post about “breathe deep” and the comment about “The problem today” took place in a private group for writers, so I won’t share the thread here. Top photo courtesy Pxfuel.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 6, 2011

At the end of August 2010, my business partner and I made the decision to document the steps I had taken to turn a blog that was earning $20 per month in AdSense money into a $500-$5000-per-month blog (all from natural traffic). copywriter: I wrote most of the copy. editor/proofreader: we had the copy revised by a few editors.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Excludes workers whose primary duty is editing copy. ”. Grammarly offers a succinct explanation of how a copy editor approaches content: The tasks include checking written material for grammar, spelling, style and punctuation issues before it’s prepared for proofreading. What’s the difference? Are there any awkward line breaks?

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

If you use the word “copy-editor,” don’t write it elsewhere in your post as “copy editor” or “copyeditor.”. Stefanie Flaxman is an online proofreader who corrects business, marketing, and educational documents in 24 hours. Don’t alternate between the two. Hyphenated words. Numbered items.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 15, 2018

When you have to document your own references so precisely, you soon learn to distrust any source that doesn’t do the same. Fact-checking was once the responsibility of that highly endangered species, the copy editor (something for which they were never fully appreciated). But this is about far more than just “showing your work.”

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