I LOVE food-focused podcasts, and these three in particular offer helpful information for all the steps and people involved in publishing your recipes and and cookbooks, from parts of a cookbook to editing to querying to marketing. If you have other favourite foodie pods I’d love to know them! 🎧

Recipe writers, here are three book titles that will make structuring and formatting your recipes easier. There are countless ways to do this, and there’s no one “right” method, as long as the route you choose is consistent, and easy to comprehend for your readers. I hope you find them helpful!

Another testimonial from a client, whose personal statement to a master’s admissions committee I was fortunate enough to edit. 😄 I’m always grateful for the chance to work with awesome clients! • Looking to prepare your writing for publishing? I’m a trained freelance nonfiction copy editor.

Can't wait! 🎉

A delightful tribute! The Jolly Postman books meant so much to me growing up. apollo-magazine.com/the-jolly-po...

Wonderful piece from @thewalrus.ca "Most recently, the internet decided that em dashes belong to large language models. There seemed to be mutual consensus in the online world ... that frequent em dashes are no longer the result of human behaviour." thewalrus.ca/i-love-the-e...

Today's conference sessions have been fascinating so far!

While taking inspiration from others can be great for motivation, it doesn’t serve us to compare our progress with others if it means we’ll feel behind or badly about ourselves as a result. We don’t all reach the finish line at the same time! And, really, it’s not a race. Have a great week! 🌤️

We would love to see more nonfiction in our queue! We're especially interested in topics compelling to an audience interested in both queerness & speculative literature. Think: queer history, science, critical analysis, & pieces that blur genre boundaries. Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

This sentiment, often attributed to Kelly Corrigan, contains a lot of wisdom on balancing fun with practicality. With writing, let’s assume the glitter is the good stuff: that zing of joy you get when you’ve worded something well, getting something published, or any accolades of recognition.

Looking to prepare your writing for publishing? I’m a trained freelance nonfiction copy editor and writer booking for Spring 2026. If you have a project you’d like some help with, get in touch! I offer free sample edits up to 1,000 words (for full manuscripts), as well as

As a writer, it’s nice to get more information and encouragement from different sources. But it’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the information, and feel the pressure to do what everyone else is doing! Remember that there’s no one way to be a writer, and you can curate the best tidbits of advice

Lunch with a friend inspired this blog post for @editorsteaclub.bsky.social, and I hope it’s helpful to others.

Really grateful that I got to write this piece! Thanks, @animeherald.com 🙏🏻

I wanted to show off some updates to my website! Head to the link in my bio to check them out. ✨ We love a refresh. 🖌️🎨 • I’m a freelance nonfiction copy editor and writer booking for Spring 2026. If you have a project you’d like some help with, get in touch! I offer free sample edits up to 1,000

ETC Blog post: Whether you’re in-house, freelance, or somewhere in the margins, this roundup of books by @choicewordsedit.bsky.social spills the tea on how editors have shaped publishing across the last century—messy desks, brilliant instincts, and all! www.editorsteaclub.org/blog-posts/s...

Taking a metaphorical moment here: When we’re kids, we believe we’ll follow a linear path to what we want, but as we get older we learn that’s often not true. The road can change, throwing us curves, or delays, or we might wake up wanting to try a new direction. Allllll of this is okay, and a

Sourdough bread is a thing of beauty.

Took a few weeks off from posting but I’m back with slots open for spring!🦋 • I’m a freelance nonfiction copy editor and writer booking for Spring 2026. If you have a project you’d like some help with, get in touch! I offer free sample edits up to 1,000 words (for full manuscripts) cont’d…

I finally found my word of the year! I have mixed feelings on the idea of transformation and change, but I hope for a lot of positive transcendence in 2026. 💖 Seeing the different words or phrases that will guide people through a new year has always been inspirational to me. Do you have yours yet?

I finally have this beauty in hand! ♥️ I never thought I’d be this excited about a new dictionary, but it’s a lot of fun to explore. And it’s so cool (nerdy) that I follow a bunch of the editors who worked on this and know their names. 😅📖 • #MerriamWebster #Dictionary #Nonfiction #Bookstagram

I LOVED this message in a recent newsletter from @samanthaanderl. It’s tempting to aim big and make long lists of new year goals. I’ve done it before and, unfortunately, always become overwhelmed and abandon them by mid-January. These days, I enjoy…(cont’d)

“Regardless, and make no mistake about it, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE is a tremendously dark film. It traffics in the language of tragedy, noir, even outright horror at times.”

I’m a freelance nonfiction copyeditor and writer booking for Winter 2026. If you have a project you’d like some help with, get in touch! I offer free sample edits up to 1,000 words (for full manuscripts), as well as 15-minute discovery calls to discuss your needs. 💻📖🖊️

We rely on many different resources besides our own knowledge. Editors need training to work with a writer’s writing, building their skills and experience as they go along. But we don’t know everything! So, it’s important to have many reference resources and software tools in your toolbox.

A short and sweet one today. 🧡 Do the hard thing! • I’m a freelance nonfiction copy editor and writer, now booking for Winter 2026. If you have a project you’d like some help with, get in touch! 💻📖🖊️ • #Freelance #Editor #FreelanceEditor #EditorForHire #Copyediting #EditingCommunity #AmEditing

I keep meaning to post this wonderful gift from my partner for my birthday last month: a stunning edition of the first Winnie the Pooh book from @foliosociety ❤️🍯 Would you believe I’ve only ever read The House on Pooh Corner? • #Bookstagram #Instabook #BooksOfInstagram #WinnieThePooh #AAMilne

If I took away anything from the #RedPencilConference this past weekend, it was this gem of a reminder from Laura Burge. Finding a working style that works for you can take some time, but once you do, don’t let anybody tell you it’s weird or wrong or inefficient. 🩷 Have a great week!

#RedPencilConference Let’s goooo! 🎉 @edsguild.bsky.social

I just sent an inquiry and got a reply from an editor whose last name is Pond. For some reason I found that utterly charming.

My friend @judylmohr.com has a course starting in January for writers! Check it out. 😄 payhip.com/b/zYSRf

The kind folks at Editors Tea Club permitted me to write a blog post of editor biographies and memoirs! It was great fun to write and I’m so happy with how it turned out. 🫖📚 www.editorsteaclub.org/blog-posts/s...

Editing myth: We’re waiting like vultures with our red pens, eager to tear your work to shreds. A podcast I listened to recently, said copy editors often introduce errors, try to rewrite your work, and flag things they shouldn’t.

A nourishing editing day means I'm not too overwhelmed by my tasks. It's one where I don't work more than five hours total, and one where I learn something new, either from the writing's contents or by looking something up. 📖 What does a nourishing editing day look like for you, fellow editors? 🤓

Apparently this is a pretty common quote, though I’d never heard of it! I can appreciate this objective, no-nonsense way of thinking about something you’re going back and forth on. But I also think telling someone to turn off their feelings can be easier said than done, especially for (cont’d)

Happy Punctuation day! {⁉️&;)*} Lots of bookish/bookish-adjacent days this week! What’s your favourite punctuation mark? Mine’s the ampersand! 💗&😁 • #Punctuation #Nonfiction #Freelance #Editor #FreelanceEditor #AmEditing #Bookstagram

Happy Tuesday! Many of us relish that idyllic, brief window in early September when we feel like students starting another semester. Even after you leave school, you get to have this feeling without the new year jitters and pressures of multiple courses and assignments every week.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

In other news I grabbed this at a family reunion crafts table and I’m OBSESSED with it. 😁💕

Happy Tuesday! I heard a concept on a podcast that really resonated with me. My business has been built, and continues to be built, on small windows of time between other work.

No, LinkedIn. A video editor is NOT the same thing as a copy editor. 🙃

Here’s a metaphor for your Monday! 🤓 Editors collaborate with writers to make their projects sing. We might suggest alternatives or point out where a reader may stumble, but on principle we will not change your voice. 💗 Have a great week!

I've always wondered about this! thehustle.co/why-its-near...

And keep in mind, Early Bird registration for the #EdsGuild2025 Red Pencil Conference will get you the best value on in-person, online, or in-person + online tickets—on now through 9/15! Video recordings of sessions are available for 6 months after the conference! edsguild.org/red-pencil-2025

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

I've got four writing projects due at various stages this month and I'm really excited about them! What do you have going on that's got you hyped up to get to your desk at the moment? (I understand if it's nothing because summer, haha.) I'd love to hear!

I have some slots left for autumn so now’s the perfect time to get in touch! I work with short and long-form nonfiction documents, including books, chapbooks, blog posts, newsletters, website copy, recipes and cookbooks. You can reach me at choicewordsediting.com or [email protected].

Happy Tuesday, all! 👩🏻‍💻 My starting price for each service is on my website—all are subject to change. • [Image description: An infographic containing the starting prices for Choice Words Editing’s editorial services, which can be found on her website. End of description.]

I’m so full of gratitude for my clients, and for the experiences and support I’ve had along the way from colleagues, friends, and family. I have many hopes for this little solo business in terms of goals and growth, and can’t wait to see what the next five years bring. 💗

I love having so many exciting, happy little goals to do. I just don't enjoy the difficulty of picking which one to tackle first, and then not being able to concentrate and end up task-switching. Bonus: Distractions abound! Oh look, it's lunchtime.... #ADHDBrains