#Editorial folks, I've fully updated the #Education and #Certification page of my #Copyeditors' #Knowledge #Base, for your learning needs. https://www.kokedit.com/ckb_2.php

Hi, good #editorial people. I completely updated the "Finding Work" page of my #Copyeditors' #Knowledge #Base today. Happy work hunting! https://www.kokedit.com/ckb_6.php

I've been spending today #updating the #Networking page, at https://www.kokedit.com/ckb_5.php, of the #Copyeditors’ #Knowledge #Base — aka the #CKB, at https://www.kokedit.com/ckb.php — within my #website. #Editors, you'll want to check out the *hundreds* of work-related #resources there. www.kokedit.com

We're busy over here at the #MockingOwlRoost - commissioning for the second half of 2025 and into 2026. But we're also #recruiting for awesome #volunteer #copyeditors who will love our contributors as much as we do! No experience necessary! Learn more:
https://www.mockingowlroost.com/recruiting/

#ICYMI: The July edition of The #ConsciousLanguage Newsletter includes:
• Why We Shouldn’t Call Trump a “Criminal”
• Stop Saying “Conservative” When You Mean Fascist
• Words Such as Racist Slurs Can Literally Hurt—Here’s the Science

✅ Read and subscribe: https://mail.consciousstyleguide.com/p/conscious-language-newsletter-july-2024

#AmEditing #Copyediting #Copyeditors #WritingCommunity #ConsciousStyleGuide #ConsciousStyle #InclusiveLanguage #ConsciousLanguage #Newsletter

I've added an entry for The Asian American Journalists Association #Style #Guide to the "Editing Tools" page of my #Copyeditors' #Knowledge #Base (#CKB): https://www.kokedit.com/ckb_4.php. This entry page for the CKB will show you how to get to the 7 subpages: https://www.kokedit.com/ckb.php. #AmEditing

I've updated 2 pages of the #Copyeditors' #Knowledge #Base (the #CKB) with an entry about Jamaal Pittman's #book The Copy Editor's (Life)Style Guide: Maintaining Your Joy (and Sanity) in a Rapidly Changing Profession. https://tinyurl.com/2fvykf68 & https://tinyurl.com/mr3dcthw #AmEditing

Surprising to learn that #publisher Taylor & Francis #advertises for #journal editors-in-chief, assoc. #editors, etc. — #service #roles in #academe (= no pay). https://tinyurl.com/4nn4caxb I've yet to see ads for #copyeditors, who require pay, in general-interest #magazines. Curious. #AmEditing

I've updated the #Copyeditors' #Knowledge #Base, including adding an entry for @karenyin's #book The Conscious Style Guide: www.kokedit.com/ckb_4.php . #style #CKB #editors #editing #resources Find other CKB pp. here: www.kokedit.com/ckb.php .

Spanish/English Editors! Go work for the Monterey Bay Aquarium! #AmEditing #CopyEditing #CopyEditors #Translation https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3821122291/

I'd be very happy to follow and be followed by other #copyeditors and #proofreaders. Don't be shy, and do say hello if you're out there!

Signs of Undeclared ChatGPT Use in Papers Mounting

#Copyeditors are called out in this article for missing embarrassing errors that are also obvious signs of undeclared ChatGPT use. Which is fair. But copyeditors do not have the time they once did. #AcademicPublishers are investing less in #copyediting and relying more than ever on outsourcing and automated systems and are prioritizing quantity over quality. #PublicationEthics #LLM #ArtificialIntelligence
https://retractionwatch.com/2023/10/06/signs-of-undeclared-chatgpt-use-in-papers-mounting/

Hmmm. Long-time #SelfEmployed #science #editors like me don't find these expectations, from the #CouncilOfScienceEditors, re #copyediting to be new: https://tinyurl.com/3bu2c2zk . Maybe there are still science & #medical #journals that *hire* #copyeditors rather than contracting with them? #Bookstodon

I support the #WGA strike on general principle. But I wonder if it isn't too little, too late. #Writing jobs have disappeared everywhere. Network #news operations have closed bureaus. A glut of #writers and #editors have, I assume, flooded the market since newspapers closed bureaus, let go #copyEditors, and ultimately went under. And, sorry, but trying to block #generativeAI is a losing battle.

As a #writer, I'm not happy about any of this. I'm just not sure it's gonna change.

This order of punctuation is bugging me. It’s not even a question, but according to style manuals the period or question mark goes inside of the end quotes. Or am I mis-recalling it. #copyeditors is this correct?

Hey #edibuddies, if you're on #fiverr or #fiverpro , check your dashboard. They've changed the gig requirements to add things that don't reflect what we actually do. Forced to add voice and tone consistency to a PROOFREAD and STRAIGHT COPYEDIT. Section rewriting to a LINE/HEAVY COPYEDIT (rewriting is a ghostwriter's/writer's job, not an editor's). Proofreading and line editing to COACHING and a 3-CHAPTER EDIT! These requirements make no sense at all for these services. #editors #copyeditors

I was lucky to copyedit the lovely book The Lichen Museum by A. Laurie Palmer last year. My own backyard is a rich resource for the topic!

https://books.google.com/books?id=EpCGEAAAQBAJ

#copyediting #editing #editors #copyeditors #lichen #LichenSubscribe #PacificNorthwest

IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE!

My colleague Amy J. Schneider wrote THE definitive manual for us #fiction #copyeditors. Get yours directly from the University of Chicago Press and it will ship within a few days. (Amazon won't be shipping until March.)

The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction fills a need. CMoS is the standard for books, yes, but fiction is squishy. Here Amy gives us the how-to for dialogue, voice, and what to do "When Fact and Fiction Collide" (Chapter 9).

Get your copy. You need this.

CMOS trained. Member of EFA and ACES. Looking for new clients. Favorite genres: Childrens/YA, Poetry, Fantasy/Sci-Fi

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@RookwoodEditing Thank you for this thread! My husband (I'm his unofficial, aka unpaid, book editor) sent me that rubbish article and it enraged me. It's absurd and vindictive. Illogical, as well, with the author contradicting herself towards the end: "Copyediting shares with poetry a romantic attention to detail, to the punctuation mark and the ordering of words. To treat someone else’s language with that fine a degree of attention can be an act of love." #Copyediting #Copyeditors #Editors