3 July 2024 | Home Page, July 2024, Newsletters
By Susan Pierotti AE, ANZSI Liaison Officer Editors, especially freelance ones, can attract more work if they add related skills to their portfolios. Indexing is a natural fit for those who mainly work on nonfiction books or reports, whether in print or online. IPEd...
3 July 2024 | Home Page, July 2024, Newsletters
By Kerry Anderson Sometimes editors are confronted with harrowing material in an author’s manuscript and, as we read, we empathise with the experiences of the author – including their pain and their trauma. Sometimes authors tell us directly about their experiences,...
3 July 2024 | Home Page, July 2024, Newsletters
By Deborah Shaw AE At the end of May, we had the pleasure of hearing Karen Workman of Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) talk about Aotearoa New Zealand copyright for editors. In our line of work, some of us will be responsible for sorting out copyright...
3 July 2024 | July 2024, Newsletters
President’s report By Deborah Shaw AE I’m an editor, so I’m all about arming myself with resources and information. I think about that Donald Rumsfeld quote from 2002 far too often, the one about known unknowns and unknown unknowns: “We also...
3 July 2024 | Home Page, July 2024, Newsletters
Dictionaries and style guides are the fundamentals in any editor’s toolkit. But they’re not the only helpful and handy resources an editor might need on their (virtual or otherwise) bookshelf. We’ve collated some fantastic Aotearoa New Zealand resources covering...
