The best bits and bites of 2022
This year marks WCEA’s 30th anniversary. How we work as editors and the tools we use have changed substantially in those 30 years, but much has stayed the same.
Good times, gin and tonics, and gossip in the graveyard
Last month, WCEA partners gathered for a long-overdue celebration of former partner Frances Peck’s retirement.
New year, new learning
As we say goodbye to the roller coaster of 2021 and welcome the new year, we also bid adieu to our affiliate partner, Frances Peck. Frances has hung up her training cloak to focus on creative writing; her first novel,…
Shining the light on 2021
Amid the darkness of winter—not to mention year 2 of living through a pandemic—we WCEA partners choose to celebrate some highlights of 2021. We have drawn from our professional life, but each of these highlights has also brought great personal…
Welcoming our new partner
We are so pleased to announce that Amy Haagsma is a new partner of West Coast Editorial Associates effective today, October 1, 2020. Amy, based in Langley, specializes in copy editing and proofreading non-fiction materials, with a focus on technical…
Toasting Frances Peck
After more than 15 years as a partner in West Coast Editorial Associates, Frances Peck is “retiring” from the partnership. The quotation marks here have a double meaning: First, she will continue teaching and training as a WCEA affiliate. And…
New year, new partner
As we start the new year and decade, we are delighted to announce that we have a new partner joining our team of editors, writers, and trainers. As of January 1, 2020, Lucy Kenward is a partner of West Coast…
An index to be proud of
Huge congratulations to our partner Audrey McClellan for winning this year's Ewart-Daveluy Award for the index she created for Churchill and Fisher (which she also edited and which earned a rave review in the Times Literary Supplement). Presented by the Indexing Society of…
Certifiably proud
We are beyond proud of partner Lana Okerlund, who has some new initials after her name: CPE. Lana has passed her final Editors Canada certification test, which means she has inserted, deleted, recast, suggested, transposed, restructured, queried, and stetted her…
Louise and Georgina down their tools—and pick up new ones
Ever wonder what editors do in their retirement? Does an armchair, along with a large pile of books, a steaming cup of tea, and a purring cat or two, come to mind? That might be the dream for some, but…