Uncategorized – Right Angels and Polo Bears

Unleash Your Inner Editor

Unleash your inner editor at #Editors17 in Gatineau, Que this weekend. Stop by the Copyediting booth at the Editors Canada conference

Be bold, stay weird, mend the broken, and add more love. My message to you in copyeditor’s marks.

During the seasonal onslaught of retrospectives, Ben Zimmer predicted new words that 2015 will bring, and pondered why some never

I made a sidewalk-sized spirograph. It’s pretty off-topic as far as this site goes, but so many people asked me

Yes, the latest site update snafu’d all the plug-ins and widgets. We’re working on it. Because, you know, it’s not

When Rachel Stuckey invited me to take part in this sort of blogging chain-letter, I felt honoured to be counted

Quick personal reflections from the 2012 conference of the Editors’ Association of Canada. (That means it’s not necessarily what they

Why isn’t the manuscript ready? Because every book is more work than anyone intended.

In my previous post of this series, I showed you how to use the “text edits” tool to mark up