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The Editors’ Guide to Confidentiality: Essential Security for Protecting Clients’ Words
Editing isn’t just about typo protection. Data security and content (intellectual property, or IP) privacy are core standards in editing
Resolution: Find Better Assignments
Can’t get clients to raise your pay? Tired of disastrous prose and rush-rush deadlines? Time to work on the client
Resolution: Raise Your Rates
“My advice to anyone starting out freelancing?” says editor Barb Adamski, “Double your rates at least once in your career.”
Editing: It’s more than typos
Of the ~150 Professional Editorial Standards, only about 6 have to do with spelling & grammar (in yellow). We can
Ethical Issues in Editing: Professional Standards
As professional editors, we follow so many more standards than those of grammar and clear communication. And it’s not just publishing law, either. Here’s a roundup of worldwide ethical standards that editors follow.
We’re freelance editors. Of course we…!
Getting on board with the “we’re X, of course we…” trend on social media, the Quad collabed on a series about editing and freelancing.
Editor for Life (Alt Answers)
I’ve been editing for 27 years now, so Editors Canada asked me their 5 Ws. Here are my alt answers.
It’s Not All Fun in Games Editing
With $3.39 billion in US sales in 2023 and worldwide revenue at $15.1 billion (growing well over the rate of inflation—at 16%) the board game market is that one editors are silly to ignore.
Setting Boundaries for Editing Disturbing Content: Negotiating Terms & Self-Care
What subjects WON’T you edit? How do you know a job might contain that? Can you turn down work? This, plus strategies for coping when you can’t say no, or it gets to be too much.