The thing about freelancing is that there’s a lot of waiting. After I edit a book for an author, that author isn’t going to have more work for me until they’ve finished their next book. After I complete an editing pass for a publisher, I still have to wait for an author to respond to [...]
One of the biggest tricks to successful copy editing is learning to question. I don’t mean learning to question the author. That comes pretty naturally, and there’s actually a strong urge in the novice editor to over-correct because they’re so diligently looking for things to fix. No, that kind of questioning is easy. What I [...]
It is with great pleasure that I announce the table of contents for WHEN THE HERO COMES HOME, co-edited by me and Ed Greenwood. The anthology will be available in AUGUST 2011 from Dragon Moon Press. More info as I have it! A Place to Come Home To by Jay Lake and Shannon Page An [...]
I was asked, in response to last week’s post, if I believe in the Oxford comma. The Oxford comma, or serial comma, is the comma that sets off the “and” at the end of a list. It’s believed necessary for clarity by some, optional by others, and inefficient by yet others, and it’s one of [...]
In a word: THIS. @CherylMorgan tweeted (and posted) a heads-up about this and I thought I’d give it a signal boost. Apparently a publisher decided to “straighten” the deliberately-ambiguous gender pronouns in writer Mima Simić’s story, turning it unambiguously heterosexual. In Mima’s words, “As this gender/sex ambiguity is one of the thematic pillars of my [...]
