The Daily Grind is an ongoing mini-feature that highlights the best cafés in Toronto for freelance editors looking for a caffeine fix and a temporary office away from home. By Deepi Harish The Croissant Tree is a spacious, non-crowded coffee shop that allows customers to work without distractions. They serve up a variety of coffees, from … Continue reading The Daily Grind: Toronto café The Croissant Tree
Ever wonder what authors think of book editors? We did, too! Here’s what award-winning, best-selling, Toronto-based author Andrew Pyper (The Demonologist, The Guardians, Lost Girls) has to say about being edited, as well as the difference between what makes a good editor and a great editor. Q&A conducted by Jennifer D. Foster Overall, what’s been your … Continue reading Q&A: Author Andrew Pyper on the author/editor relationship
As professional editors, we know how satisfying it is to find the perfect pen for your latest project. That’s why we’re giving away something special exclusively to one lucky member of EAC’s Toronto branch: a $20 gift card for Toronto stationery store Wonder Pens! This new specialty store, located at 906 Dundas St. W., is … Continue reading Contest: Editors, win a gift card to Toronto stationery store Wonder Pens!
By Samita Sarkar Recently, I watched an informative PBS documentary about the history of the Maya language called Cracking the Maya Code (watch it online here). Much like the other indigenous civilizations of the Americas that encountered Europeans hundreds of years ago, the Maya experienced cultural and linguistic oppression at the hands of Spanish colonizers. … Continue reading The importance of language as shown by ancient Maya civilization
The Daily Grind is an ongoing mini-feature that highlights the best cafés in Toronto for freelance editors looking for a caffeine fix and a temporary office away from home. By Nina Munteaunu I discovered Wunderland Gallery and Espresso Bar, a delightful indie café in the Beaches, while looking for a place to relax and write. … Continue reading The Daily Grind: Toronto’s Wunderland Gallery and Espresso Bar
By Alanna Brousseau “The most important obligation of friendship is to listen,” explained Max Perkins to his second-eldest daughter, Zippy. Perkins, the editorial momentum behind such literary heavyweights as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe was considerably more than a reviser of words, straddling at times the roles of confidante, money lender, minder, … Continue reading Book review: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
The Daily Grind is an ongoing mini-feature that highlights the best cafés in Toronto for freelance editors looking for a caffeine fix and a temporary office away from home. By Jennifer D. Foster Cake Town Cafe on Danforth Avenue (just west of Woodbine Avenue) is a little slice of homemade heaven for those looking to surf … Continue reading The Daily Grind: Toronto’s Cake Town Cafe
By Denyse O'Leary University of Toronto demographer David Foot argues, “Demographics can explain two-thirds of everything.” Exaggerated? Maybe, but demographics can shed light on growth or decline areas for editorial services. The key demographic fact is that a certain number of children are born each year and no one can go back and change that number. Most of … Continue reading What difference do population trends make to your editing business?
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