Three Time-Saving Tools for Editors
When you’re editing in Microsoft Word, there are some fantastic tools available that can both save time and improve the quality of your...
Editors’ Conclave 2018—Sessions That Stayed With Me: An Editor’s Journey
This blog was originally published at https://myooka.wordpress.com/2018/03/25/editors-conclave-2018-sessions-that-stayed-with-me-an-edito...
Editors' Conclave: The Speakers' Perspective
An audience comprising mainly copy editors? And showing them not slick visuals but text slides? That sure made me jittery. And the last...
My Editors' Conclave Experience
Daylong events are not my cup of tea and I am usually quite wary of attending one of these out of my own volition, especially on that...
Editors’ Conclave in Chennai, India: Let’s Have More of Them
This blog post originally appeared at http://krishvenkatesh.com/post/171295745966/editors-conclave-in-chennai-lets-have-more-of This...
Top tips for running an editing course
Training courses about editing can be run for a number of reasons, such as: teaching colleagues about the editing process; teaching...
Editors’ and Proofreaders’ Alliance of Northern Ireland (EPANI): How We Got Started
The Editors’ and Proofreaders’ Alliance of Northern Ireland (EPANI |www.epani.org.uk) turns six in May of this year. It was originally...
Random Thoughts on the Joys and Tribulations of Indexing for a Small Publisher, Part 1
Having indexed books for over a decade now, for publishers both large and small, I have come especially to value the latter, who tend to...
Plain Language Is the Editor’s Key to Reaching Readers
Why do editors need plain language skills? Plain language, the process of ensuring information meets readers’ needs, is quickly becoming...
2016 EFA Conference: A Glimpse
I had the opportunity to attend the EFA Conference held at New York on 29 and 30 August 2016. It was quite an enriching experience where...