Date Posted: Sunday March 5, 2017 News type: Uncategorized
Our meeting on March 8 will focus on editing theses, an area that is of interest to many editors especially in the Kingston area with its large education sector. Our guests will be longtime twig regular Angela Pietrobon, who has included thesis editing as a significant part of her freelance business for many years, and […]
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Date Posted: Tuesday February 14, 2017 News type: Uncategorized
by Grace Seybold Early in our February 8 discussion of changing usage, the subject of Google’s Ngram Viewer came up. Carla Douglas used the twig’s new “projector” (a.k.a. cheap TV) to demonstrate how to track changes in language usage with this site, which scans a corpus of 155 billion words of English published since 1800 and […]
Date Posted: Tuesday February 7, 2017 News type: Uncategorized
As language professionals, we know that language is always evolving—as it should. Keeping up with the current language in the fields we work in, and making judgment calls about when a particular evolving usage is acceptable, are things that editors do every day. Bring one or two interesting issues that you’ve encountered to the table […]
Date Posted: Saturday February 4, 2017 News type: Uncategorized
Three Takes on Self-Publishing by Gregory Murphy This year, Old Man Winter has enjoyed turning Ontario’s sidewalks and roads into hazardous snow-and-ice-encrusted traps. Some of us editors come from afar to take part in our Kingston gatherings, and it would have been reasonable to skip out, planning to go to the next one, if Winter […]
Date Posted: Monday January 9, 2017 News type: Uncategorized
A panel of three experienced self-publishing author/editors will share their expertise. Stacey D. Atkinson is a freelance writer and editor based in Ottawa, ON. She has written two novels, Stuck (2013) and Letters from Labrador (2016), and she offers an online course on how to self-publish a book at PublishABook.ca. You can follow her on […]
Date Posted: Sunday January 8, 2017 News type: Uncategorized
The Editors Kingston holiday social on December 14 was a great success. Fourteen twig members and guests gathered in the back room at cozy family-owned Olivea, where a great deal of pasta and wine were consumed and laughter rang out all evening. (People who think editor parties are staid affairs have never partied with editors.) […]
Date Posted: Monday December 12, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
Celebrate the dark season an informal pay-as-you-go meal in the private room at Olivea (39 Brock Street, Kingston). Partners and friends welcome! Wednesday, December 14, 6:30 p.m.
Date Posted: Monday November 21, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
Association News Website Update The evening began with a look at the redesigned Editors Canada website. Its launch was so fraught with technical difficulties and delays that last month when Elizabeth started to announce it was really about to go live a collective shout went up from those in the room: “Don’t say it! You’ll […]
Date Posted: Friday November 4, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
Alex Schultz has worked as a senior acquiring editor for McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Canada, and HarperCollins Canada. He will describe what he did in this role and what it is like to work with high-profile Canadian authors such as Russell Smith, Jane Urquhart, Vincent Lam, Wab Kinew, and Roy MacGregor. Now an in-demand […]
Date Posted: Wednesday November 2, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
Association News Some updates from the national organization: Editors Canada has a new executive director, John Yip-Chuck ─ and he’s an editor! At least, he was one, at legal publisher CCH Canadian and then at Pearson Education. He went on in educational publishing to become a program manager, managing editor, and eventually publisher (responsible for […]
Date Posted: Monday October 10, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
Check out this beautiful poster of our upcoming meetings! Know of places you can post it? Copy and print it and put it up around town. Share the link to this blog. Help us get the word out about editorial doings in Kingston!
Date Posted: Friday September 30, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
Let’s Work Together—I Won’t “Should” at You What kind of collaboration might one expect between an editor and a designer? What kind of software do designers use? What is “tagging” a manuscript and how can it be done most effectively? What strengths can a designer bring to a project? October’s speaker at the Kingston Twig […]
Date Posted: Monday September 19, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
Association News Lots of news after the long summer. First of all, the twig: Editors Kingston is alive and well, with 15 members (including one student affiliate), over 30 people on its email list for events & info, and over 60 on its Facebook page. Now, some national updates: Webinars Are Here! Those at the […]
Date Posted: Monday September 12, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly-sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.” –You’ve Got Mail September brings a sense of new beginnings, even to those of us whose last “first day of school” was […]
Date Posted: Tuesday March 29, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
Editors, of course, would not exist without writers. At Editors Kingston, we’ve decided it’s time to hear from the other side of the editorial conversation. This month, we move our meeting venue to the Tett Centre Rehearsal Hall in order to host a panel of eminent Kingston-area authors — Shelley Tanaka, Melanie Dugan, and Ian Coutts — […]
Date Posted: Wednesday March 16, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
Association News The session line-up for the Editors Canada Conference in Vancouver, June 10 to 12, has been announced. Be sure to check it out! Note that the Editors Canada AGM will be held Saturday, June 11; the National Executive Council is investigating options for electronic participation, so members can ask questions and vote from […]
Date Posted: Tuesday March 8, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
What are your favourite online editing resources? Let’s share and discuss! Is there an editing-related website you find you use all the time in your work? A language blog that always teaches you something new? An app you wouldn’t be without? A piece of software (or hardware) that’s made your editing life a lot easier? […]
Association News Nearby Editors Canada seminars coming up include “Copyediting II” on March 22 in Ottawa and both “Manuscript Evaluation” and “Creating a House Style” (the latter presented by our own Elizabeth d’Anjou), also on March 22, in Toronto. The conference is coming! The national Editors Canada conference this year will be held June […]
Date Posted: Wednesday January 27, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
Are you curious about what goes on behind the scenes at a university press? On Wednesday, February 10, acquisitions editor James MacNevin of McGill-Queen’s University Press will take us through the acquisitions and editorial process. With examples and anecdotes from his own experience, he will explain how a press builds a list in a given […]
Date Posted: Friday January 22, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
Association News At the Editors Kingston January 13 meeting, coordinator Ellie Barton began by sharing some association news: Winter/spring series of editing-related seminars have been announced by both the Editors Toronto and Editors Ottawa-Gatineau groups. (And tonight’s speaker, our own Elizabeth d’Anjou, is teaching two of the Editors Toronto offerings.) The Professional Editorial Standards are […]
Date Posted: Wednesday January 6, 2016 News type: Uncategorized
The Editors Kingston meeting on Wednesday, January 13, will feature a presentation by Elizabeth d’Anjou on freelance editing estimating and rates. Come join us! Estimating and setting fees are among the biggest challenges faced by self-employed editors. (Publishers and others who hire editors face the same issues from the other direction.) While there is no […]