by Assistant | Mar 5, 2018 | Blog, editing, News, Tips
Did you know that March 4 was National Grammar Day? For people like me, this was a major event! Please comment below about your pet grammar peeves, the funniest grammar mistakes you’ve seen, or the most embarrassing grammar mistakes you’ve made. My personal pet...
by Assistant | Feb 19, 2018 | editing, News, Tips, Writing
In my Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors, I address the myth that writers should never start a sentence with a conjunction (and, or, nor, because, for, yet, so, since, unless, until). But I recently heard that there’s a new “rule” floating around in the...
by Assistant | Dec 4, 2017 | editing, News
Having been a professional freelance editor since 1998, I believe in the power of a well-written and well-edited book. With all the self-publishing and small-press publishing going on these days, it seems there’s a plethora of books out there that aren’t as...
by Assistant | Nov 27, 2017 | editing, Tips, Writing
One new thing in the 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (which just came out in September) that I found helpful is a section on tips for proofreading PDFs. Most of my editing is on Word files sent to me by authors and publishers. But I also do some...
by Assistant | Nov 13, 2017 | editing, News, Tips, Writing
The online version of The Chicago Manual of Style (available by subscription) has a Q&A section that can be accessed, along with the full text of the book, through the search feature. I have found answers in that Q&A section to many questions that weren’t...
