My business planning approach is woeful – many of the projects I work on are so prone to slippage or re-allocation that I have given up planning further than a week ahead. [ read more ]

Have you encountered a scholarly publishing organization or product that you thought was particularly impressive and demonstrated outstanding quality, creativity and innovation? If so, then you can nominate them for an EPIC [ read more ]

One for the book nerds – check out this little nugget from ‘CMOS Shop Talk’, comparing and contrasting editorial style used in book publishing in the 1700s and modern Chicago style, using [ read more ]

June Casagrande's 'Grammar Underground' is always a good place for finding clear, well-explained posts on the correct usage of grammar and idiom, and as someone who always doubts their own ability to [ read more ]

I love language and the way in which we use words. I also love the sea, and everything in it and on it. I grew up a few miles from Portsmouth on [ read more ]

I sometimes think that the peerless John McIntyre and I were separated at birth, so closely aligned are our editing brains. I have long privately lamented the death of the use of [ read more ]