Goodread's readers' favourite books of the year have been announced. Particularly pleased by the winner in the history and biography category! www.goodreads.com/choiceawards... #amreading

A win for copyright - Internet Archive loses: publishingperspectives.com/2024/12/copy... #publishing #amediting

More bloggy goodness - the last of this season. I'll be back in September. The CIEP has retired this review I wrote of Dowdle and Ruggeri's 'Networking for Freelance Editors' so I updated it and popped it on my blog: aptwords.co.uk/networking-b... #AptWords #amediting #freelancing #bookreview

New blog post! I introduce four principles that good copyeditors apply in how they work (rather than the technicalities of what we do to the text). #AptWords #blog #amediting #amproofreading aptwords.co.uk/4-key-princi...

Should an author index their own book? Maybe but often not. So here’s my Society of Authors article: ‘Why you need and how to work with a book indexer: a guide for authors’. See also a trained professional like me for more. We’d love to help. #IndexSky baindex.org/2021/01/29/w...

New bloggy goodness! My new post is aimed at scholarly authors switching up a gear from articles to their first book. I give my top six tips to help them make that transition. aptwords.co.uk/6-tips-for-w... #AptWords #authors #amwriting #amediting #firstbook

My new blog post is specifically for scholarly authors new to being copyedited (even more specifically, those in the humanities and social sciences). Lots of resources to help you orient yourself, too! #AptWords #amwriting #amediting aptwords.co.uk/copyedited-f...

I'm back with a new blog post, looking at why copyediting is important when getting text ready to publish: aptwords.co.uk/why-is-copye... #AptWords #blog #emediting

Bloggy time! Great customer service isn't just for freelancers - it's for our clients, too! No, I don't think this is controversial! aptwords.co.uk/customer-ser... #amediting #blogging #AptWords

What experiences from your life do you bring to your current work? Here's mine: aptwords.co.uk/copyeditor-6... #AptWords #lifeexperience #amediting

I said a month ago I'd been to the first in the webinar Non-fiction Developmental Editing course with the CIEP. Today, we had the last webinar! Really good course and if you can get on the next delivery (April, I believe), do! (Well, only if you're interested in the subject 😉) #amediting #AptWords

The final part of my mini-series of blog posts for authors who have to work with tracked changes is out - and I'm looking at handling comments. #AptWords #authors #Word #comments aptwords.co.uk/handling-com...

I had fun yesterday going to the first webinar in a training course from the CIEP on developmental editing in nonfiction. There's homework! And three more Tuesday mornings of thinking deeply about texts with 14 other editors. I'm with my people 😃 #amediting #amlearning #nonfiction

New blog post! The third in my series on working with tracked changes is now out. I'm looking at how an author might tackle the job when sent a file full of tracked changes, & instructed to work through them. aptwords.co.uk/working-with... #authors #trackedchanges #amediting #AptWords

The second article in my mini-series on tracked changes is out! I'm looking at which buttons to press to navigate around tracked changes, & accepting/rejecting edits. This is aimed at authors who are faced with a tracked changes file & are aghast! aptwords.co.uk/navigating-t... #amediting #amwriting

Well - this has made me very happy (and very surprised): Wordle 948 2/6 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

New blog post! Why I think tracking every single Word change is counterproductive: aptwords.co.uk/tracking-cha... #amediting

Here's my first blog post of the year, on what it takes to be a great editor, beyond technical competence. Do you think I missed anything? aptwords.co.uk/8-qualities-... #amediting

Final blog post this year - I like to do an occasional 'famous quotes' one so here's Mark Twain. Ish. aptwords.co.uk/mark-twain-n... Season's greetings, and wassail! 🎄 #amediting #blogpost #freelancing

The new writing and editing tool Draftsmith launched yesterday from the folks at @perfectit.bsky.social I got the chance to give it a whirl ahead of launch and here's my review: aptwords.co.uk/draftsmith-r...

New blog post time again already! This time - line-editing. I've been doing some investigation into what it actually is - and isn't. Seems no one really knows! aptwords.co.uk/line-editing/ #amediting

New blog post time! This time I look at the Cs of editing - the principles by which we work. But how many Cs? Opinions vary, but this is where I landed on the issue: aptwords.co.uk/7-principles... #amediting

I've been trying to copyedit probably the worst book I've ever been sent. No discernible plan to the content; AU fills the text with overuse of euphemisms & pronouns, so the reader has no idea what's going on... reported it to the publisher as not ready for CE. I've just been told to pause 🫣

The world needs another blog post on generative AI and the impact on the editing profession. It does, honest. Here's mine: aptwords.co.uk/generative-ai/ #amediting

The final (sob!) Flying Solo blog post for the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading is out! blog.ciep.uk/training-and... #amediting #training #CPD #freelancing

I've just updated my directory entry on the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading site. It's a great place to find quality editors & proofreaders as everyone in there has had to prove their chops. If you need an editor or proofreader, not just in the UK, look here: www.ciep.uk/directory/

New blog post time, folks! I'm looking at style guides, how editors use them and how they differ from, but mesh with, style sheets. And when a rule is not a rule 😉 aptwords.co.uk/style-guides/ #amediting #styleguides #stylesheets

"The Grammar Daily" comes out one month from today! I'm going to ramp up promotion, and I hope you'll bear with me. About 11 months ago, I walked away from ~280K followers on Twitter, so I'd really appreciate your support! amzn.to/48R4T69

My new blog post is up, and I'm taking a look at the ethics I use in my editing and in running my business. What approaches do *you* take? aptwords.co.uk/ethical-cons... #AptWords #amediting #ethics #freelancing

@editorialcat.bsky.social I made it! Thank you! Still have No Idea what I'm doing, but looking forward to figuring it out!