June 2010

Contact Information

June 28, 2010

Two friendly reminders about contact information… 1. It seems silly, I know, but please put your contact information (including your email address) in the body of your email. Down at the bottom after your signature is a fine place. Sometimes when some email programs forward messages, or sometimes when some email programs print messages, the [...]

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Advice for Copyeditors

June 21, 2010

I’m trying to get ready to go out of town and deal with the loose ends regarding my mother’s estate, so today’s post will be short and sweet, and Thursday’s post may well be absent, or equally brief. This blog often offers advice for new writers, but advice for new copyeditors is very important as [...]

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Cheryl Klein on Commas (and Squids!)

June 17, 2010

Cheryl Klein doesn’t know it, but she was one of my inspirations when I decided to go into editing full-time. I was working at in the book club division at Scholastic, just a couple floors away. I don’t think we ever even met, though we exchanged email once over a typo. But the idea that [...]

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Interview with Podthology editor Tim Reynolds

June 14, 2010

To celebrate the release of Podthology, Dragon Moon Press’s new anthology of podcast fiction, editor Timothy G. M. Reynolds chatted with me about the making of an anthology. GH: You mentioned on the Blog Talk Radio interview that Gwen Gades from Dragon Moon Press approached you with the idea for the theme. How familiar were [...]

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