Easily digestible chunks and sections on tracking down rights holders make this primer on Canadian copyright law a valuable addition to the editor’s shelf. Read
Month: November 2014
How to Accept Less Than Your Best
Rolling in a heap of money helps one cope. Consider adding an aggravation fee. Lorne Michaels famously said about SNL: The show doesn’t go on because it’s
LOTW Nov 1–7
This week’s roundup of internet stuff for gangbangin’ publications playaz and science mofos: a plea for science communication diagramming sentences 12-steps of editing resources
Shortcut to Rotate Pages in a PDF
Those sideways PDF pages? Rotate in a click. Note that this rotates all pages in the PDF, and only temporarily. Just rotate them back when
Nominations Open: Editing Award for Canadian Publications
It is time for editors to take a bow: the annual award for Canadian editing is now accepting nominations. Today, in my Canadian, Eh? column at
Quoting on Rush Jobs
Principles of quoting on the rush-job, today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com. The topic of less-than-ideal circumstances and how to break out of that cycle is