(An Editorial Cartoon—a print book of the first ten years of these comics about editing and publishing—is available from online book retailers everywhere. One dollar from each copy sold goes to the Indigenous Editors Association. Massive thanks to everyone who’s bought a copy so far!)
Category: Freelancing
Break
Holdup
Bye, design
I’ve been firmly planted on the editorial side of publishing since my early days as a volunteer writer and proofreader at my student newspaper in undergrad, but my first paid gig in publishing was in production and design: after I moved cities for my MSc, I got a job laying out the student newspaper once a week at my new school.
I absolutely loved it. Continue reading “Bye, design”
Queue
Empathy
Dupes
Style sheet
I’m too texty
Dedicated to Tanya Gold and Heather E. Saunders.
Want to know more about #StetWalk? Check out Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty’s primer on it.
I, novice

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