Ice skating & Wuthering Heights discourse is all over my timeline & I need everyone to go listen to the audiobook of THE FAVORITES by Layne Fargo because it is both. Johnny Weir is part of the audiobook cast!
PSA: it is a romance in the same way that WH is a romance, which is to say it is not one.
Craft in the Real World is so good – every time I look at my notes from that book I remember another gem. Have fun!
Are you a writer who wants to read more? I'm on The Indy Author Podcast with tips on what & how to read – or maybe even start your own reading group. Host @mattydalrymple.bsky.social is such a good interviewer & takes us deep into the topic.
www.theindyauthor.com/show-notes/3...
#amediting
Indie authors really like making their own decisions, and more power to them!
In my questionnaire I send to copyediting clients, I show them both ways, tell them which is “correct” according to Chicago, and let them choose. Many prefer the look of the single-character ellipsis followed by the space. (And they like that they know how to do it themselves.)
It’s a very common choice in indie (self-pubbed) books, I think in part because it takes more technical knowledge to create a non-breaking space, whereas MS Word will autocorrect three periods to a single ellipsis character.
I want to see Zelu running down that highway in her exos!
An almanac page for Jan 9. Under “Good”: blank. Under “Avoid”: “all matters”
This new almanac I’ve been using is here to tell us that we should avoid “all matters” today, so this is your excuse to ignore your to-do list and take yourself to your couch
What I will remember most about 2025: the Anthropic settlement, the growth of AI narration, the closure of 8th Note Press, and what seems like widespread acceptance or acknowledgment that book criticism/reviews/mainstream coverage has forever changed.
Yikes!
The most interesting part! I was thinking about your book when I saw the king tides bringing water up onto the sidewalks by the Ferry Building last week.
Yes! You are doing it!
"When mush is asked, much will be taken." >>> "When much is asked, much will be taken."
Best typo I've caught in ages, and right in the middle of a tense, life-or-death scene! Phew. The thought of a sneaky little typo like this fucker slipping by is what keeps editors awake at 3am.
#AmEditing
Good luck getting home!
There is a Green Apple Books in Terminal 1! It’s so nice there that we chose to have dinner at the terminal before going home. No, I can’t believe I’m typing those words either.
A friend and I, both of us newly divorced and without our kids for the holiday, went out to a fancy steak dinner, just the two of us. Steaksgiving! Still one of my favorite Thanksgivings ever.
A promo graphic for the Editors Canada webinar An Introduction to Editing Speculative Fiction with Genevieve Clovis and Tanya Gold on November 25 at 1pm ET. The graphic has a black background with blue sparkling swirls—like magic or stars.
Join me and @cloviseditorial.bsky.social on Tuesday for a talk on editing speculative fiction!
We'll have an intro to all things spec fic and worldbuilding, and guidance on how to apply it all to all levels of #editing —all this with an inclusive fiction lens.
webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
I cannot stand it
A friend and I were talking about awkward stock photos again and I realized it's never a bad time to reshare this list of sites with free stock images that are both less awkward AND more inclusive in terms of the people in them. (It includes a great one for your fall vaccine coverage!)
What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
I saw him in San Francisco a year or so ago – really great show. Glad you got there!
Text and a logo of an open book with sparkles emerging from it. The text: Self-Paced Courses for Editors & Writers: Exploring "Passive" Income, Coaching Writers, Working with Indie Authors, Pitch Yourself, Editing Memoir, and the DIY Developmental Edit. TanyaGold.com. Scholarships Available.
Hey, #Editors & #WritingCommunity! 👋🏻
I've topped up the scholarships for all my self-paced courses again!
There's a limited number of scholarship spots for editors and writers from marginalized groups.
They're first-come, first-serve, no questions asked.
TanyaGold.com
#AmEditing #WriterSky 💙📚
PSA to anyone listening to the audiobook of Ian McEwan's What We Can Know: It omits almost 20 pages in the final third of the novel!
If you are confused about the references to the boy on the platform – you didn't miss anything! It's simply not there! 🤯
I can report that the sleep spell did not release them until the rainbows disappeared. Poor kitties! They seem to have fully recovered.
Epic!
Three sleeping cats surrounded by sunbeams and rainbows
BREAKING: My cats have created some kind of rainbow wormhole situation. What’s the protocol here?
That felt fucking fantastic!
(Pls overlook the spacing – I am merely an editor with a printer and opinions about typefaces, not a graphic designer)
That video was from the June march. Today was even bigger! This is the best video I’ve seen yet
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