Archive for October, 2004
It is always amusing when you see your kids being shaped by their environment. Blaine is so clearly the daughter of a copy editor. Today, she was telling me a story about some little girl in her class. Blaine was quite irate at this child’s poor manners. The story went this way: “Mom, you would [...]
Design Robert Frost I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth – Assorted characters of death and blight Mixed ready to begin the morning right, Like the ingredients of a witches’ broth – A snow-drop spider, a flower like [...]
I am one of the most monomaniacal people I know. When I am absorbed in something, I find it utterly impossible to think about anything else. I don’t want to do anything else; I don’t want to be interrupted; I just want to finish what I’ve started. Having kids hasn’t, unfortunately, broken me of the [...]
I went off my writing hiatus to accept a few copyediting projects I didn’t want to turn down, and I’ve ended up swamped. I had an author/editor request of an Alan Dean Foster, and then I did a first project for Pyr (The Crown Rose, a lovely historical novel by Fiona Avery, who seems happy [...]
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I'm a freelance copyeditor specializing in fantasy and science fiction. SF/F novels I have copyedited have been finalists for (and have sometimes won) the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, Endeavour, Golden Spur, John W. Campbell Memorial, Quill, Locus, Philip K. Dick, British Science Fiction, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy awards. In 2007 I became the first and only copyeditor ever short-listed for a World Fantasy Award.
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