Category Archives: Editors

The good, the bad, and the “that could have gone better” about subcontracting

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Iva Cheung| Leave a comment

Patricia Anderson, PhD, runs an editing and literary and literary consulting business, Helping You Get Published, and has hired several editorial subcontractors over her company’s fourteen-year history. Amelia Gilliland holds an editing certificate from SFU and has worked in-house at … Continue reading →

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PubPro 2013 recap

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Iva Cheung| 1 Comment

Managing editors and publication production managers from across BC gathered at SFU Harbour Centre on Saturday for the first ever PubPro unconference. We had representatives from educational publishers, trade book publishers, self-publishers, magazine publishers, journal publishers, technical publishers, course developers, … Continue reading →

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PubPro 2013 schedule

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Iva Cheung| Leave a comment

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Upcoming editing and publishing events

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Iva Cheung| Leave a comment

A lot is happening over this next week! I hope to be posting about all of these editing- and publishing-related events—though probably not all at once. Look for my summaries over the next few weeks. 1. Ethics for editors Having … Continue reading →

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The making of a profession: Why do editors need a national association?

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Iva Cheung| 3 Comments

David Harrison, secretary on the Editors’ Association of Canada’s national executive council, spoke at Wednesday’s EAC-BC meeting about the making of a profession. Are editors there yet? And can EAC be considered a true professional association? In addition to exploring … Continue reading →

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Book review: The Art of Making Magazines

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Iva Cheung| 1 Comment

Each spring the Columbia School of Journalism invites heavyweights from the magazine industry to speak about magazine journalism at its George Delacorte Lecture Series. Victor S. Navasky, publisher emeritus of The Nation, and Evan Cornog, dean of the School of … Continue reading →

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Book review: Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Iva Cheung| 2 Comments

Too often we see book production as a sequence of tasks—writing, editing, design, proofreading—forgetting that behind these tasks are professionals who have to work as a team to make a book happen. Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text (edited by … Continue reading →

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ISC and EAC Conferences 2012: Personal perspectives

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Iva Cheung| 1 Comment

Now that I’m finally done summarizing my conference notes, I thought I’d share some of my own reflections on the experience, which ended up being much more invigorating than I had expected. Initially the conferences were just an excuse to … Continue reading →

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Style sheets with substance

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Iva Cheung| Leave a comment

Ruth Wilson gave a scintillating presentation at last evening’s EAC-BC meeting about style sheets—an area, she says, that new editors often struggle with. A style sheet is distinct from a publisher’s style guide (which applies to all of the publisher’s … Continue reading →

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Oh wiki, you’re so fine; you’re so fine you blow my mind

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Iva Cheung| 1 Comment

In my consulting work, one question I always ask my clients is, “Do you have a central repository for your editorial information?” If not, I say, get one. (And by posting this, I’m pretty much giving away the farm here.) … Continue reading →

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