Editing Report for 2014 and a Preview of 2015
Editing is my primary source of freelancing income so it's fortunate that I can say I did a lot of it last year. Today, I'll take a look at the projects I took on in 2014 and what I hope to do this year. Editing in 2014 I did a LOT of editing in 2014. When the year...
Reading Report for 2014 and a Preview of 2015
Today, I'm kicking off a series of posts where I'll look back at what I accomplished in 2014 and what I have planned for 2015 in the three main word-related areas of my life: reading, writing, and editing. Since "reading" is the easiest to quantify, we'll start there....
December Book Wrap-up
Before we start with the books, a quick programming note: Welcome to 2015! I'm starting off with my December 2014 Book Wrap-up but come back next week for either two or three (I haven't decided yet) posts addressing reading, writing, and editing as they happened in...
Editing ‘The Last Superhero’
When Astrid asked me to edit “The Last Superhero,” a lot of thoughts went through my mind. It wasn’t my first full-length novel. I’d edited at least half a dozen before this one. It wasn’t even my first time editing her work – I’ve edited two full-length novels and...
November Book Wrap-up
The second half of November, once I finished some major work events, was great for reading. I finished 7 books in all, though among that I'm including one I edited (I'll have read it about 4 times by the time I finish work on it this week). This was a diverse reading...
October Book Wrap-up
I have been working working working and so this post is late late late! Ack! October was a decent reading month with 5 books total. Two of them were shorter books but one was 771 pages long (and felt even longer) so I'm going to consider that a very good month. With...