Archive for Editing
(This post is specifically about speculative fiction anthologies; it’s not about magazines or novels, and it’s not about literary fiction or other genres.) Short version of this post: If you’re an sf anthology editor or an sf author, what does the idea of being “invited” to submit to an anthology imply to you about whether […]
(Wrote the first part of this post on Friday (Jan. 20), and posted it to Facebook. Started the second part later on Friday; finished and posted it on Saturday (Jan. 21).) (This is a long post—nearly 6,000 words. The short version: I’ve been laid off after 18 years at Google; I’m fine; I’m not looking […]
For our annual tech writer conference at work, I gave a talk about the sixteen-year history of our developer docs style guide; I created the original version of the guide in 2005. The conference had the presenters prerecord their talks this year, so I recorded mine before I went on leave. The people running the […]
From a 1997 novel: She puts away her notebook. [10 sentences elided here—about half a page. No mention of her notebook anywhere in here.] [Character name] puts away her notebook. [Yes, I understand that it would be possible to construct a rationale for why this made sense or was a clever hint toward something or […]
The long-planned official blog post about the editorial style guide that I own/maintain at work has finally gone live, as...
I don't think I've had a dream about editing before. Kind of funny that I should have one while I'm...
Sometime in the past year or two, I was thinking about anthologies I'd like to edit, and I came up...
Just saw this in AT&T's Wireless Terms of Service for California customers: You are not liable for charges you did...
I just wrote the following to Project Gutenberg: I just encountered an interesting possible problem in your edition of Northanger...
A couple of weeks ago, I read a particularly long run of submissions with particularly unfortunate anti-woman aspects. All sorts...
Lately, we've been receiving what seems like a lot of submissions from authors who aren't following our submission procedure, one...
For those who haven't heard, the Hugo award for Best Editor has undergone a change. For quite some time, the...