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Hello, springtime 😊

Such a great event put on by Clarion West! Can’t wait to dive into some fun new romantasy reads. 😍

So excited for this event today, and to be a representative for @edsguild.bsky.social! An afternoon of tea, fantasy, and romance—couldn’t ask for a much better start to spring!

This is so awesome! 🤩

HEY! I'm doing my first ever PNW event for the release of THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES! Better yet, the amazing @meganeokeefe.bsky.social is joining me! Seattle, WA Third Place Books - Lake Forest Park Aug 18 Join us! You can get a copy of TLSAW a day early! www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/meliss...

New editorial assistant’s first day on the job. ❤️

Working on building up a new little library. Would love any recommendations for much-loved picture books. 🥰

Some standout books on this list! Including: 🐈 THE LAST GIFTS OF THE UNIVERSE by @rileyaugust.bsky.social 🌟 ON VICIOUS WORLDS by @dr-bethany-jacobs.bsky.social 🚀 ESCAPE VELOCITY by @victormanibo.com

Yay! Brandon Sanderson's Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy lecture series is live again. He's recording them and uploading them to youtube. They are absolutely worth watching. I'll link to them in this thread as well. #AmEditing #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Writersky 📚💙

Thought it might be fun to share my end-of-year overview of projects I worked on in 2024: 26 copyedits 5 proofreads 2 editorial letters 2 post-CE cleanups 18 adult SFF 6 YA fantasy 2 MG fantasy 3 MG contemporary 1 adult contemporary 2 graphic novels 1 light novel 3,490,778 total words edited

If you've ever looked into #ConsciousLanguage, you've likely benefitted from @karenyin.bsky.social's work. Sadly, Karen and her partner lost their home in the LA fires. Would you please donate to their GoFundMe? gofund.me/e4700980 #AmEditing #WritingTips #FreelanceEditing

Happy New Year, everyone! Please enjoy this art card created by my lovely friend Tinnel Lovitt.

Hi #ACESChat! I’m a freelance fiction copyeditor, just popping in for a brief break from a big project wrap-up.

Ooh, excited to check this out!

Cookie time! Little bit of Christmas meets D&D. 😄🎄

Mornings are starting to get a little frosty. #StetWalk

"Like so many good fantasies, it is in part a story about the stories people tell about themselves." @mollytempleton.bsky.social reviews H.G. Parry's new fantasy The Scholar and the Last Faerie door 🖋️📚🌳 reactormag.com/book-review-...

I love making our own Christmas wreath every year 😊

Jonesy wishes everyone a happy holiday season.

More holiday watercolors 🎄

Beautiful sunset at the Snoqualmie Falls, after a snowy tree-hunting adventure.

Holiday arts and crafts with watercolor 🎄

PNW visual artists, please submit examples of work to fridayafternoontea at gmail dot com if you would like to install at our tea house for a month in 2025!

What is one of your favorite movies?

Finally finished this incredible puzzle. Whew.

Post a picture you took to bring some zen to the timeline.

Boo.

Jonesy has confiscated the two things taking up my attention. No reading, no editing, only petting.

A few books I love by trans and nonbinary authors: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White Flawless Girls by Anna-Marie McLemore Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender The Ranger of Marzanna by Kelley Skovron Always looking for more recs!

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Copyeditor: It looks like the cup was referred to as “half full” in the last chapter. Would you like to update here for consistency?

Woohoo! Patreon just added batch editing, so I went and unlocked EVERY SINGLE WRITING TIP POST on my Patreon through the end of 2022! I now have 58 free posts on there, collecting some of my best writing tip threads. Go check 'em out! www.patreon.com/MelissaCaruso

I’ve realized one of my favorite parts of copyediting is spotting and untangling wonky timelines. The last project I worked on used dates, days of the week, and hours of the day for each scene…and, I just had so much fun making a calendar to track it all? And finding fixes is so satisfying?

Just finished going through the major changes to CMOS 18 and adding in new bookmarks. Really appreciating some of the clarifications for editing fiction, in particular.

Ren Faire spoils, including some gorgeous opalite dice from Elven Tree Gaming.

Jonesy wishes everyone a happy International Cat Day.

When you get back from a lovely hike and realize you forgot to put ballots in the mail, so you have to drive to the closest drop box 20 minutes before the deadline. I still voted!

Lovely hike to Snow Lake today, in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness.

Ooh, pretty 🤩

It’s okay to have five copyediting projects in your inbox when you’re heading into a week of “vacation,” right? 😅😭

I'm offering up a book cover illustration commission for self-published (or small press) authors in this auction! I haven't had scheduling availability for self-pub lately, so this is a good opportunity if you are interested. There's lots of other amazing items as well, and for an important cause!

I see SOME of you noticed we quietly made advent preorders live a few days early…👀🤫 www.fridaytea.com/products/tea...

I'm donating a signed, personalized ARC of THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS to the Romancing the Vote auction, which begins on July 1! This is a rare chance to get one of only a handful of signed ARCs in existence, well before publication! www.32auctions.com/organization...

I never feel like I'm writing a novel until it's finished, or very close to finished. It's just a pile of words until then. Then it mysteriously passes some point and becomes a novel which I have written, and it's astonishing every time.

These Unity the Unicorn travel tumblers are SO CUTE. Just got mine and I'm frickin delighted by the quality. PLUS we're donating 50% of profits from all Unity merch to Trevor Project this month, which makes it even more magical! Get yours here! 🦄 www.fridaytea.com/collections/charitea

#HappyPride! Looking for new books by authors in #LGBTQ communities? Here is a list of #2024debuts, including my book, "The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers." 🏳️‍🌈 Check it out: 2024debuts.com/pride/ #PrideMonth #DebutAuthors #NewBooks 📚

Happy Pride Month!

Oh my gosh!

I have openings in my schedge for editing clients! And have made a pretty... well, functional new editing page. Need a word-trimmer? A story whisperer? A magical horse? I can help with the first two: www.spencerellsworth.com/editing/