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Tag: publishing
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 who can: the ones who
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 Houston on his blog, Shady
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 cases, rather than typing a
What Editors Do—Explainer
Do you wonder what editors do? Do you know that there are at least 5 distinct jobs that get the title of “editor”? Yes, in
Who Edits the Dictionary?
Nine times, the Merriam-Webster dictionary gets edited. And still, users report errors. But what do you expect from 3000 pages of four-point type? Today, in my How To column
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 episode, an extended look at
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 week before that, we heard
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 benefitted from others’ notes in
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 for an in-depth piece on editing