HiisikoloartOct 10, 2025

Do we have Book Editors here?
Please make yourself known!

My friend is looking for one and I would like to help them find where all of the editors hang out these days! (I am hoping the answer is Fedi)

Also - NO "editors" who use AI and just shove writing into LLM. Real human workers only!!

Edit: added a tag, and trying to reply to everyone tomorrow!
#writing #books #editor #editing #bookediting #proofread #storyedit #copyedit #writer #bookstordon #fedihelp #WritingCommunity

Show threadGLCJan 1, 2024

@hildabast @PLOS
There's a minor glitch in the text at this passage:

"between thmodel

e goals of diversity in peer review and improved efficiency."
#copyedit

Katherine Pickett, EditorOct 14, 2023

And done! I completed the 1,100-page copyediting project!

I look forward to hearing what the author has to say about the editing. I've made a lot of suggestions for tightening it up. She might even get it down to 1,000 pages. 😆

#AmEditing #copyedit #nonfiction #book #WW2

Show threadDailingualAug 9, 2023
@pc_bain @edibuddies @stetwalk hello I #proofread #copyedit and #index in #Cymraeg and #English too!
Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELSJun 14, 2023
Sounds like fun: "National Geographic is seeking a copy editor to #copyedit National Geographic Kids #nonfiction & #fiction #books." Makes me angry: "Hiring range for this remote position is $26.50 to $32.00 per hour." Ridiculously low pay!
https://tinyurl.com/2cbkvwhs #Bookstodon
Diligence JonesMay 31, 2023

stanch or staunch?

hm.

#words
#vocabulary
#copyedit

K. V. JohansenMar 19, 2023
Copyedit is done. A nice, sensible, professional one. It actually consisted almost entirely of Americanizing my speling. Oh wait, that's one the Amercians don't remove the double L on ... ;-) #CopyEdit #WritingLife
ArielAnderssenDec 22, 2022
STARRRRRRRTING!!!!! @[email protected] https://unbound.com/books/playing-to-lose/ #PlayingToLose #copyedit
Playing to Lose

The Memoir of a Jehovah's Witness Turned Submissive BDSM Model

Unbound
Rudy Leon, editorDec 14, 2022

#indexing books before the #copyedit really drives home the degree to which #acquisition #editors (at least at this #press) do not do any mansucript development.

How do we normalize the hiring of #developmentaleditors as SOP in the book writing process, given this absence (at least at those presses where this is a structural absence)?

Stacey J. MillerNov 21, 2022
I've just switched servers, so I'm new here...again. Here's my new introduction. I'm from the Boston, MA area (US). I've been working as an independent communications specialist for 25+ years. Always looking for freelance #editing gigs. I #copyedit, #proofread, and #ghostwrite--mainly #books (all genres). My favorite hat is that of book coach. I love to help #authors make their self-publishing dreams come true. I'm also a #news junkie, blue, and a #cat lover. Hope to connect soon!