’Tis the season of New Year’s resolutions—with a constant stream of articles, TV and radio news stories, and online clickbait telling us what we need to do to have better health, better productivity, and a better life in 2019. I’ve…
Congratulations to the BC Medical Journal on 60 years as the flagship publication of Doctors of BC. For a good many of those years, the journal has been a favoured client of ours. Claudette Upton, a founding member of WCEA, served…
One of the best editing tips of all time, and one I apply in every project, is to begin query letters and emails to writers with a compliment before launching into the many surprising and creative ways the author may…
At an October 2017 seminar in Vancouver, Greg Younging treated editors and other publishing folk to a sneak peek at his forthcoming book, Elements of Indigenous Style. Since the book hit stores in February 2018, it’s been sailing off the…
When I’m not editing, one of my favourite activities is horseback riding. For 10 years I owned my own horse, Cannon, a retired Quarter Horse “schoolmaster” with a huge personality—think Alistair Cooke with a glass of port and a wry…
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…
Over the many years of my editing career and teaching editing courses, I have counselled hundreds of would-be freelancers on how to succeed. My short advice is simple: “Show up. Deliver.” I’ve worked with and hired enough freelance editors myself…
We're always thrilled to see a book we have worked on appear on the BC Bestseller List, and especially when it hits the number-one spot. That is the case with A Matter of Confidence, by Richard Zussman and Rob Shaw, which…
People often get a deeper insight into their profession when their table turns: teacher becomes student, doctor becomes patient, or, in my case, editor becomes writer. I’ve been writing for years and have been edited plenty of times. My graduate…
Congratulations to author and naval historian Barry Gough for the glowing Times Literary Supplement review of his book Churchill and Fisher: Titans at the Admiralty, edited by WCEA partner Audrey McClellan and published by Lorimer in 2017. "This enthralling book...is a work…