6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
By Sylvia Bauer, Editors ANZ Back this July by popular demand after speaking in 2021, Pania Tahau-Hodges hosted her second workshop on editing te reo Māori in English-language texts. This topic affects all editors in Aotearoa New Zealand, so it’s no wonder...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
By Marita Smith AE On Tuesday 1 October, Dr Linda Nix AE delivered an insightful presentation about business planning for freelance editors. Linda discussed the essential role of business planning in the freelance editing profession, emphasising that developing a...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
From Editors Western Australia On Sunday 13 October 2024, IPEd representatives from Editors WA presented a workshop, titled ”Working with an editor”, to aspiring authors at the Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Writers’ Centre. Demystifying the editorial process for...
6 November 2024 | Newsletters, November 2024
By Deborah Shaw AE I’m always interested in learning about how editors and book people find their way into the industry. Many editors seem to fall into editing unintentionally. Perhaps they became the “word person” at their office, or they applied for a...
9 October 2024 | Newsletters, October 2024
By Carolyn Page AE This engaging presentation by editor Kate O’Donnell and author Jessica Dettmann was a superb lesson in editing that is “done with” rather than “done to”. Jessica and Kate originally worked as in-house editors for the same publisher but, finding...
