The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: editing

  • Visions and Revisions, Or How to Lose 26K Words in Two Weeks While Dreaming of Icebergs

    Photo credit: Dylan Kereluk from White Rock, Canada; used under a CC license. Description: Newfoundland coast and iceberg. I have a word length problem. By May 1, I need to chop a minimum of 26, 232 words from the second draft of my first mystery novel. On that May Day, a very good developmental editor…

  • In Praise of Editors

    I’ve just completed comments/corrections in response to the best copyediting of my academic work that I’ve ever experienced (for a forthcoming MLA volume on teaching Margaret Atwood). It was a marked contrast to some past mediocre experiences, and one real disaster, when an entire book manuscript, including my chapter, was outsourced to a non-English-speaking country…