As previously discussed here, a copy editor’s job is to correct errors in grammar, spelling, usage, consistency, and continuity, and to ensure that a writer’s manuscript adheres to the publishing house’s standard style choices in terms of spelling and punctuation.
The ideal copy edit is a helpful one, or at least an unmemorable one. Today, [...]

Guy Gavriel Kay recently wrote an article in which he wonders if some blogging authors are perhaps inviting readers a little too far into their lives.  He cites examples where authors like George R. R. Martin and Pat Rothfuss are taking heat from readers for delays in getting new books out.  I think we all [...]

I thought writing — the physical act of moving a marking implement across paper — was akin to bicycle riding, a task you never forgot how to do.

Welcome Harlequin TEEN Senior Editor Natashya Wilson. She began working at Harlequin Books in 1996, when she became an editorial assistant for the Harlequin American Romance and Intrigue series. She left in 2000 to work first as an associate editor for McGraw-Hill and then later for the Rosen Publishing Group, where she edited children’s nonfiction [...]