@EditingCo

Official twitter page of The Editing Company, Toronto's most reliable editing house. Also tweets @BethAMcAuley

 Toronto, Ontario
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Joined October 2009
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Jane Friedman@JaneFriedman17 May 2023
It's quite rare for an author to cross over into traditional publishing by pitching their self-published book. But here's how one author did it. #querytip buff.ly/41SN9CU
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"Why do we writers, especially those neurodivergent folks, continue to procrastinate even when it causes us heaps of anxiety?" Writer in residence @edenboudreau digs into why and how writers procrastinate & reminds us all to be a bit kinder to ourselves: open-book.ca/Writer-in-Resid…
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Jane Friedman@JaneFriedman27 Feb 2023
I've been a longtime customer of @ingramspark, who is the February sponsor of my free newsletter. Through end of the month, they're offering free uploads for self-published titles if you use the code BOOKLOVE. Learn more: buff.ly/3X7gLtI #ad #Sponsored
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Jane Friedman@JaneFriedman2 Feb 2023
"The true act of revision comes when a writer is willing to move each and every piece of furniture out onto the front lawn." —Dinty W Moore at @brevitymag buff.ly/40q4bIY #amwriting #creativenonfiction #cnf #memoir
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Have you heard the word "flizzoms" before? It means "small fragments of very thin things, such as of dry leaves or tobacco dust". I think autumn is the perfect time to try to bring back this #ForgottenEnglish word. Who's with me?! 😂 #WordWednesday #definitions #proofreader
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WordRake@WordRake15 Nov 2022
#PlainLanguage can be used to communicate more clearly with more people, but plain communication for one audience may not be plain to another. Award-winning editor @IvaCheung shares some eye-opening exceptions to common plain language advice. hubs.li/Q01sh7hx0
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Porcupine's Quill@porcupinesquill26 Jul 2022
The Booker Prize longlist has been chosen... lithub.com/heres-the-2022-bo…
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Josh Bernoff@jbernoff26 Jul 2022
The @nytimes published 8 "We were wrong" columns on Sunday, including @paulkrugman, @zeynep, and @fmanjoo Only 4 of the 8 changed in response to their mistakes. All failed to recognize how powerful bias and optimism are as forces warping our opinions. withoutbullshit.com/blog/wha…
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AuthorMikeCompton@ikeandmikeblog3 Nov 2021
For those writers who want to give their editors fits. wordgenius.com/silly-punctua…
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How do you like your quotation marks, curly or straight? Test your knowledge of these helpful little delimiters by taking this month’s quiz at CMOS Shop Talk. #ChicagoStyle #AmEditing #AmWriting cmosshoptalk.com/2022/07/26/…

Chicago Style Workout 67: Quotation Marks

Quotation marks, or “quotes” for short, like to work in pairs. But they’re not all the same. They can be double or single, left or right, curly or straight. Part of an editor’s job is to know which...

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Porcupine's Quill@porcupinesquill26 Jul 2022
Today's lunchtime laugh: Adult Summer Reading Assignments newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…
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Manuscript Society@ManuscriptSoc25 Jul 2022
How a Toronto man opened a new #rarebook store during the pandemic. His oldest item: a sheaf of illuminated #manuscript pages from the 13th century: ow.ly/z43j50K35c4
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Tom Gauld@tomgauld24 Jul 2022
Protest Literature. My cartoon for yesterday's @GdnSaturday / @GuardianBooks p.s. my new book Revenge of the Librarians can be pre-ordered now: tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Title: Protest literature. Image: Five books. The titles are: Alice's Activism in Wonderland About a Boycott Tom Brown's Strikedays The Placard of Dorian Gray Far from the Marching Crowd

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Interjections? Well, OK, then! @SubvCopyEd Carol Saller combed through novels to see how writers punctuate interjections these days. Read her post this week in Fiction+ at CMOS Shop Talk. #ChicagoStyle #AmEditing #AmWriting cmosshoptalk.com/2022/07/19/…

“Erg, no kidding?” Interjections in Creative Writing

Not all fictional characters are meant to be smooth-tongued and lyrical in their speech. Rather, just like us, they sometimes mumble or stumble. Giving a character flawed speech is a way to make...

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Defector@DefectorMedia16 Jun 2022
Novelist's plagiarism defense is a truly mind-blowing document: defector.com/novelists-plagi…

Novelist's Plagiarism Defense Is A Truly Mind-Blowing Document | Defector

On Wednesday, The Guardian reported that The Dogs, a 2022 novel by Australian writer John Hughes, contains passages copied pretty much wholesale without attribution from The Great Gatsby, and from...

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Dragonfly Editorial@DragonflyEdit18 Jul 2022
#TodayInCopyEditing * “Ukraine,” not “the Ukraine” * Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine. That’s the Ukrainian spelling. The dish chicken Kiev uses the Russian spelling. * Ukraine’s president is Volodymyr Zelenskyy, although many news outlets drop the final “y” cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/…
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Read & Write Podcast@RandWPodcast18 Jul 2022
This week on Read&Write, @DMZiebarth talks with #podcastguest, @word_czar, about his #book “Why Editors Drink” and discusses his years as an editor. Apple: loom.ly/jNd5_34 Spotify: spoti.fi/3G9S4oU
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To mark Bastille Day, editor @4ndyman looks into “prison,” “jail,” and other places that house the incarcerated, in this week’s In a Word. bit.ly/3Pbz2ms
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Mary Norris@MaryNorrisTNY19 Jul 2022
Congratulations to Ellen Jovin @GrammarTable on the publication TODAY of REBEL WITH A CLAUSE! harpercollins.com/products/r…
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The fall season of the TIFA Virtual #BookClub starts on September 7! The wonderful @catgrahampoet will be chatting about Cody Caetano’s Half-Bads in White Regalia, a memoir that unspools a tangled family history with warmth, humour & deep generosity. Join: bit.ly/3uH1FQf
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