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#GiveaBook

editrx wrote in cranky_editors Dec 11, 2014 18:58

Just got in the publicity material from the American Booksellers Association that between now and December 25th, all posts to Twitter and Facebook that use the hashtag #GiveaBook will count towards Penguin Random House's big donation to Save the Children ( Read more... )

Your burger and sides look so very nice today.

garyomaha wrote in cranky_editors Jan 01, 2014 11:00

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Things computers can do that no one would want to

supergee wrote in cranky_editors Dec 26, 2013 14:07

Hyphenate as follows: w-
hole.

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supergee wrote in cranky_editors Nov 15, 2013 12:00

The second author listed in a reference to a military tech article is "Corps, U. S. M."

Help Wanted: Experienced with Adobe Acrobat Pro

karalianne wrote in cranky_editors Oct 11, 2013 11:10

My primary client needs some help that I am unable to offer ( Read more... )

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supergee wrote in cranky_editors Sep 03, 2013 08:23

One thing I like about copy-editing is that a dirty mind is a job requirement.

How do you tell a writer that the manuscript is awful?

gehayi wrote in cranky_editors Aug 24, 2013 22:13

It's a private job. And oh, dear God, this woman cannot write. She's an extremely nice woman; I wish that all of my clients were so nice. But she cannot write ( Read more... )

auctorial insanity, wtf, editing

Impossible directions?

jaylake wrote in cranky_editors May 26, 2013 04:33

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[ADMINISTRAVA] Closing my Livejournal account

thatwordgrrl wrote in cranky_editors May 18, 2013 11:31

This is your friendly Pacific Standard Time moderator here. I will more than likely be closing my Livejournal account within the next few days. I rarely use LJ any more ( Read more... )

Title style, sentence style . . . camel style!

scarlettina wrote in cranky_editors May 07, 2013 14:26

I learned something new today. I've been in technology nearly 20 years, and I'd never heard the term "camel style" before. It refers to a term that has an uppercase letter in the middle, for example, a file name where two words are pushed together and a letter upper-cased to make it easy to distinguish the second word, for example: userStudies.doc. ( Read more... )