5 July 2024
In the early days of my publishing career, I would fret endlessly about how much editorial intervention was appropriate when copyediting a manuscript. I would feel panic when faced with copy that [ read more ]
1 July 2024
I freely admit to being one of those really annoying individuals who will silently correct your grammar as you speak, or sigh inwardly at yet another misused apostrophe on someone’s blog/website/post. I [ read more ]
13 June 2024
There comes a time when expressions of concern and explicit warnings are not enough – thus the New York-based business arms of global educational publishers Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning and McGraw [ read more ]
6 June 2024
To me, reading is like breathing – I can barely remember a time when I couldn’t read. I read all the ‘Mr Men’ books at 3 years old, and was blessed with [ read more ]
5 June 2024
My latest delve into the news stories in and around language, editing and state of STEM publishing has predictably revealed a sustained buzz around AI and its ramifications. ‘Publishing Perspectives’ has posted [ read more ]
24 May 2024
A recent post in The Scholarly Kitchen has confirmed what I have long suspected about myself as a publishing animal: that I’m a detail freak, obsessed with words, and quite nerdy! The [ read more ]