When I was at Erlbaum: Ours would do things such as review submissions, become guest editors for special issues, advise on direction of journal focus, help editor with promotion and such.

Thank you, sci-fi copyeditor, for keeping such a detailed style sheet for alien languages: italics, accents, caps!! I send you the warmest proofreader love today ❤️

Thank you!!

Thank you! The kid brought home an NYC field trip exposure. Humph. Just like a tiring bad cold. 🙄

My hubby gave me my holiday present early so I could use it in quarantine! Xebec laptop side monitors!! That’s love. ❤️

Finally reading Dreyer’s English. All giddy that I have a sticky note on the same Words into Type page that he does.

I answered this newspaper ad 31 years ago, and it’s been academic editing for me ever since. Here’s to the amazingly devoted and smart teams at small academic publishers.

A first for me: the author of the nonfiction text I’m proofreading dedicates the book to a scene in a Bergman film.

Basically the reason I use the British voice for reminders is so I can hear “Okay, I set a reminder to make Bah-NAH-na bread.”

In today’s “I Learned While Editing”: The people of Utah are Utahns. Oh, does my brain want a vowel in there!