If you are even a minor word nerd, you have probably thought about the dictionary and how it gets made.
Tag: publishing
Treating Plagiarism
What to do when you discover someone else’s content used without credit.
10 Ways We Can Support Diversity in Publishing
See the update. Why am I—a distinctly non-diverse voice—giving advice on increasing diversity in publishing? Because we’re the only ones
Using Character Spaces Effectively
In the beginning, there wasn’t even space. “Writing in ancient Greece was broken by neither marks nor spaces,” writes Keith
Working with a Table of Contents in MS Word
Word is not a layout tool, though it often gets used that way, especially in a business environment. In those
What Editors Do—Explainer
Do you wonder what editors do? Do you know that there are at least 5 distinct jobs that get the
Stop Wasting Time on Estimates (podcast)
Learn how to get a ballpark estimate on the table asap to avoid pointless estimates. That’s the topic of this
Where Is the Next Trend in Publishing?
Last week I shared advice about unplanning your career, gleaned from David Hayes at the EAC conference in Toronto. The
EAC 2014 — editors’ conference report
Thanks to social media, I got insights from sessions I couldn’t clone myself to be in, and took notes and
Podcast between-isode: another peek behind the editing curtain
A sort of between-isode update of what’s been going on at my desk, to keep you satisfied while I do more research