May 2014 – Right Angels and Polo Bears

Do you need an editor? decision tree

Favourite finds this week… My editor pal @BarbAdamski created this handy decision tree at work this week, and said I could share

Sometimes the cart is pushing the horse, and a client wants a quote on copy editing a live (or about

Eagles are out to get us, favourite numbers, horses frozen in a lake, movie scripts that wannabe script writers/editors must

When I moved, I threw out 350 of the 500 business cards that I printed when I first set out

Is it ever okay to work for less than your normal rate? Absolutely; within reason. You still need to pay the

A quick look at the short list for Canada’s award for editorial excellence, today, on the Copyediting.com blog. This year

Check out the podcast version of this post (with transcript). These three tips will help you “fake it ’til you

Spurious correlations I am concerned by rising number of Americans who die by becoming tangled in their bedsheets: 717. All of

It has been three years since I wrote about social media for freelance editors; forgive me. Not much of my opinion

A sort of between-isode update of what’s been going on at my desk, to keep you satisfied while I do more research