I've never used this abbreviation before, but smh. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/a...

Happy Et al.entine’s Day, everybody!

Honored to write this review of @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's Big Fiction for @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social. Stimulating in itself, this book is also great fodder for further contemplation: Here I focus on applications for publishing curricula and on conglomeration's implications for editorial work.

New valentine design: academic conversation hearts! (Order soon: The samples spent 9 days, or 7 business days, in transit.) tweedediting.threadless.com/designs/acad... #academicvalentine #academicvalentine

Someone is not using headphones in this waiting room. What they’re playing is Prince, but it’s still bad form. 🔇

NIH Study Sections have been cancelled. These are groups of experts who get paid a pittance, if anything, to review research funding applications from their peers. The result of these reviews is to rank these research grants to decide which proposals get funded.

Thanks, fortune cookie. How about I just edit hundreds of books instead?

A little affirmation for your day. Digital and print #academicvalentines now available on my website: tweedediting.com/valentines

Tweed valentine in situ at an academic library! 📚

Academic valentines are back! And by request, some of this year's designs are purely collegial. 💌 (Given shipping estimates, order soon for 2/14.) tweedediting.threadless.com #academicvalentines #academicvalentine

My first donut chart, and I love it! I crunched some data re: the manuscripts I've edited over fifteen years; at least 108 of them have become scholarly books. Top fields include religious studies, history, English, and anthropology. Next project: figure out how to animate w/o cursor 🙃

It’s beginning to look a lot like CMOS! 📒 #cmos #chicagostyle #cmos18 @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Those of you planning to have me edit your manuscripts in 2025, consider locking in 10% off a gift certificate before the end of the year. (People have given these to themselves—just sayin'!)

What is it about Depeche Mode’s “Policy of Truth” that makes my brain go right from “Never again is what you swore the time before” to “And the whole world loves it when you make that sound”? Is Outkast’s ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-da the same little motif?

What a great resource. Everyone should know about the AUPresses Subject Area Grid! I recommend it especially often to authors whose work is intersectional.

People have asked, and the answer is yes: I do offer gift certificates for editing. And should I add a special 10% off through the end of the year? Yes, I will! Inquire here or email me at [email protected]. Happy holidays!

Come December, every academic reverts to character. Which one are you? ❄️

Every so often, someone asks me about gift certificates. I do offer them on request! #academicediting #scholarlywriting #scholarlypublishing #academicpublishing #academicwriting

Lots of local popups going on at Lloyd Center mall in Portland today. To my own surprise, I’m especially happy to see Barnes & Noble so festive—and busyish.

It’s all coming together! I remember being shocked years ago to learn about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program. Now I see the vision/endgame all around.

Any book you're giving to an academic writer this holiday season can support a local bookstore if you buy through Bookshop.org. My suggestions are in the repost below!

Filled with gratitude for all the insightful manuscripts that come my way year round. Happy Thanksgiving, authors and colleagues!

Finally starting Helen DeWitt's latest. It's speaking my language. #tweed #helendewitt #theenglishunderstandwool

Dead on, on principled grounds. Cynically, I think that eschewing AI (or valuing "human-centered" work) will also become a prestige differentiator. So . . . lots of good reasons for scholarly publishers to do as @rlevay.bsky.social suggests!

People will be like "I read 80 books this year" and I'm a book editor so I'm like "me too but it was 20 books 4 times each"

Need holiday gifts for academic writers? I've put together a collection of books I truly recommend. There are craft books, books on publishing, and some examples of great research writing. 📘❄️📘❄️📘❄️📘 bookshop.org/shop/tweeded...

Portland Guild member @tweedediting.bsky.social gets ALL the treats this year! Just take the entire editorial candy bowl, Katie, you have won the costume contest! 🎃

My copy of Henry James's ghost stories has a book-spine-tingling typo

You can’t spell “book” without B-O-O! #cmos #chicagomanual #chicagomanualofstyle

Always a good morning when I wake up to see an editing client featured on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Today was one of those days!

Should I be surprised that we fortysomethings are just disregarded?

This is too bad. One of my favorite Alice books came from Price Club, the SoCal Costco predecessor, in the nineties. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/b...

Thinking of scheduling some editing this year? I know it’s only May, but now is the time to get on Tweed’s docket. Reach out to discuss possibilities. 📙

Speaking of which, has anyone made a playlist of diss(ertation) tracks?

"Protester" or "protestor"? Garner says the current ratio in print is 2.3:1 for -er. It's 1:1 on the NYT homepage right now.

I guess the OCR is doing better with my handwritten editorial notes. It used to render scribbled gender symbols as ampersands. Now, these gigantic emoji pepper the doc.

So I can't use "delve" anymore? 😔

For a second, part of me really thought this might be news of a class action on behalf all of us still haunted by this regime(n).

Footnotes from the 🖤

Thanks to everyone who ordered print valentines. Just wanted to reiterate that the digital valentines are still available, of course! tweedediting.com/postcards/ #academicvalentine #academicvalentines

Last week, local author Tiffany Dickinson joined my PSU Book Editing class for a great discussion about her middle-grade manuscript that the students are editing this term. What a treat!

Zoom call with a new client this morning. Would I be open to doing the whole vendor rigmarole with her university? Funny she should ask: I’ve been stacking 2023 1099s on my desk. Filing W-9s is my jam (apparently).

Sassy magazine, August 1990

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Just increased my iMac's RAM by a factor of 5. This thing is humming! I did not know life could be like this.

Every year, people ask me for paper versions of my academic valentines. Now I’ve gone and done it. 💌 #Academicvalentines you can drop in the mail or deliver by hand are available from tweedediting.threadless.com 💌 #academicvalentine

I'll keep you posted. 📬 #academicvalentine #academicvalentines

November's Visiting Editor Program is, shall we say, in the books! Get in touch if you are putting together your department's calendar for 2024. I'd love to work with your faculty, and this program is a great way to support many of them in a concentrated period of time.

If you've been meaning to get in touch about spring edits, now is the time! I'm booking for March 2024 and beyond. 📓📓📓