Short answer: carefully! Long answer? Here goes! How a copyeditor approaches their work depends on a great deal – how they were taught, their own… Read More »How do copyeditors work? 4 key principles of good editing
Every author writing for publication has to face the moment when they have to hand their text over for copyediting. For authors doing this for… Read More »I’ve never worked with a copyeditor before. What should I expect?
I was at lunch with some old friends from university when one of them decided to explain to me that my job is utterly unimportant,… Read More »Why is copyediting important?
If your Word documents are clogged up with comments, I’ll help you make them easier to navigate and answer. Read on!
You’ve got a file chock full of tracked changes and need to work through them. How should you approach the job? Let me guide you through it…
Navigating Tracked Changes in Word demystified!
I take you through which buttons to press when you’re given a file full of tracked changes.
What sets a good copyeditor apart from the crowd? Here are the eight qualities I think are needed.
Let’s start in the time-honoured way by defining terms. Price is what you hand over – the money. Value is what you get for your… Read More »Value versus price: why the cheapest probably isn’t the best
I’ve written before about proofediting, the smooshing together of editing and proofreading into a single stage when preparing text for publication. This time, I want… Read More »Why I think editing and proofreading should be done by different people: one big reason and two cautionary tales
Shakespeare had a lot of good observations on copyediting, proofreading and running your editorial business! Read on…
