Latest posts tagged with #AmCopyediting on Bluesky
Semi-regular reminder that I will never quote my clients' writing on the internet (1) without their permission or (2) for the purposes of complaining about/making fun of the people I work with.
Not sure why I see so much of this.
#AmCopyediting
On a note of serendipity, I copyedited an academic theologian's essay about the book of Esther yesterday.
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Editor on laptop with a cat and a foster doggy beside her.
How your email finds me.
#StetPets #AmCopyediting
Personal preference time: "Okay" is the better option over "OK"
#amcopyediting but also #amfollowingthestyleguide so "OK" it is.
I blame MW for this one, ha.
Overhead view of a 2025–2026 diary on a tabletop. The diary cover is patterned with flowers in bright, vibrant colours.
It’s been a busy end to 2025 and start to 2026. Through the books I’ve worked on recently, I’ve travelled vicariously to Africa, Antarctica, the Americas and the Arctic. Asia and Europe are up next. (Love my job!)
I’m available for new freelance projects from April 😊
#AmCopyediting #AmProofreading
I've been hit hard by the midafternoon sleepies. Just need to get through three more pages, then I can get up and shake it off. #amcopyediting #amtired
Today I learned about "zoomer hagmaxxing," and can I tell you how much I love my job? The boring days are few and far between, that is for sure, haha! #amcopyediting #amediting #amlearning
Starting the year with a copyedit of a charming romantasy that features a cat café and it's giving me all the warm fuzzies. Great start to 2026. #amediting #amcopyediting #amcontent
I am winding down the year with three *very* different genres of manuscripts—going from one headspace to an entirely different one is one of my favorite things about this job. It always feels fresh!
Except for the comma issues. There are always comma issues, lol.
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I'm editing a doc translated from Portuguese and the Portuguese for analyze appears to be "analise" and in totally unrelated news I would like to apologize for my immature brain. #amediting #copyediting #edibuddies #amcopyediting
I recently worked on an absolutely nail-biting horror, with elements taken from a real-life historical figure, and while I have never really gravitated toward horror in my own personal preferences, this author has me seriously rethinking that. I think I've been missing out! #amediting #amcopyediting
when someone forgets a comma and you're forced to consider the possible existence of "diapers formula" #amediting #edibuddies #copyediting #amcopyediting
Feel like editors need a new hashtag other than #amediting. I look up that hashtag and see a bunch of writers. Who are lovely people, but I'm really curious to see what my fellow editors are up to. How about #amcopyediting ?
Amazing how I can remember continuity issues like someone’s scar being described in passing as above the left eye and, oops, 250+ pages later it’s on the right, but I cannot remember the reason I just went into my laundry room. 🤷🏻♀️ #amediting #amliving #amcopyediting
Having to use #CMOS 17 when I need to look up something quick for author-date citations because CMOS 18's citation chapters are now stupidly difficult to navigate 🫠
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Just finished up working on an adult romance with a main couple who had the absolute best tension and chemistry! And it was a setting I wasn't super familiar with, so I learned a lot too! Anyway, A+ storytelling. I hope it finds an audience. #amediting #amcopyediting #amproofreading
New week, same project, same earworm 😊
🎶 ‘… What if none of the Pickwick triplets did it? Who’d have had a menacing motive and hid it?’ 🎶
#AmCopyediting #MurderMystery
Copyediting an absolute gem of a book right now. Writing is superb, storytelling is hugely entertaining, pace is spot on.
They're not all like this, but even when they're not, there's joy in helping to get it there. That I get to do this for a living is simply amazing. #amcopyediting #amediting
Today's edits include having to delete the word "former" to describe "President Donald Trump" for a piece that was written in 2024. 🫠
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Fellow copy editors: How are you flagging content that may be AI generated? #amcopyediting #amediting
The hyphen in brand-new, IMO, is entirely unnecessary. #amediting #amcopyediting.
For the current book I #AmCopyediting, I have had to:
-verify Octavia Butler quotes
-watch music videos to confirm descriptions of dancers' wardrobes were accurate
-google old-school Missy Elliott lyrics
Not a bad gig.
There's been such serendipity to the projects I've been getting lately. I get really into something weird and niche and cool in my spare time, and suddenly a memoir or encyclopedia about weird/niche/cool thing is in my inbox.
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"Book Notes Note that a place of publication is no longer required in book citations (see CMOS 14.30). 1. Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown (Pantheon Books, 2020), 45. 2. Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder, The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today (University of Chicago Press, 2022), 117–18."
Chicago style no longer requires place of publication in citations. Authors: If you put these in your citations, a copyeditor needs to take them out manually, so if you read this, please be a champ and skip them the first time around.
#AmCopyediting #CMOS18
Books I copyedited have been spotted in the #ALA vendor hall!
(When Women Get Sick by Rebecca Bloom and The Wounds Are the Witness by Yolanda Pierce)
#AmCopyediting #Copyeditor #BroadleafBooks
Anyway: Vague shoutout to the wonderful author I'm currently copyediting, who penned a deeply felt, beautifully written memoir centered around movies. Excited to share closer to publication. Happy to edit human-written words worth reading.
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Someone once said, "Sometimes I think I knew grammar and punctuation better before I started learning all the rules."
That's not true, of course, but I'll tell you what: Cumulative vs coordinate adjectives can really get me twisted up at times. #amcopyediting #amediting #TOOMANYADJECTIVES
It's never easy jumping into a copyedit midway through an established series, so shout out to the nameless copy editor who worked on book one of this sprawling high fantasy series that just landed in my lap. That style sheet has been an absolute lifesaver. #amcopyediting #amediting
I can work on a 400-page heavy copy edit no problem, hit that deadline no problem, and yet doing the invoice for it feels like such a chore. Why am I like this? lol #amediting #amcopyediting #amgettingpaid
When you've had to reference it so much lately that you memorize it. I'm looking at you CMoS 6.67 LOWERCASE OR CAPITAL LETTER AFTER A COLON lol #amediting #amcopyediting
