Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing
@jenjeditor.bsky.social
Owner and Editor, Up Style Editing. Writer.
Fiction and Creative Non-fiction. Dev, Line, Copyedits. Beta Reading, MS Eval's. 📚
EFA Member, Editors Canada Exec, WCC Workshops. ✍️
www.upstyleediting.ca
Fiction and Creative Non-fiction. Dev, Line, Copyedits. Beta Reading, MS Eval's. 📚
EFA Member, Editors Canada Exec, WCC Workshops. ✍️
www.upstyleediting.ca
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comparing yourself to other creative people can be helpful. Finding motivation/inspiration. But don't put yourself down because you're not someone else. It's not fair to you, bro. You can achieve your own version of success. Just do your thing. Keep swinging that axe. You're doing great.
December 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
comparing yourself to other creative people can be helpful. Finding motivation/inspiration. But don't put yourself down because you're not someone else. It's not fair to you, bro. You can achieve your own version of success. Just do your thing. Keep swinging that axe. You're doing great.
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📣 Goodreads GIVEAWAY is officially open. Enter to win a copy of After Shock today 📚 #medsky #booksky
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Book giveaway for After Shock: Learning to Reinhabit My Body After Illness by Rana Awdish Dec 01-Dec 21, 2025
Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Dec 01-Dec 21, 2025. This book will forever alter how you think about healing.—Jessi ...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
📣 Goodreads GIVEAWAY is officially open. Enter to win a copy of After Shock today 📚 #medsky #booksky
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Looking for a FREE e-book about the essentials of writing a story, and more, written by a team of editorial professionals?
From Manuscript to Market is available here: a.co/d/79CJrd8
#booksky #5amwritersclub #helpforauthors #writersky #authorsky #bookpublishing #editors #bookmarketing
From Manuscript to Market is available here: a.co/d/79CJrd8
#booksky #5amwritersclub #helpforauthors #writersky #authorsky #bookpublishing #editors #bookmarketing
December 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Looking for a FREE e-book about the essentials of writing a story, and more, written by a team of editorial professionals?
From Manuscript to Market is available here: a.co/d/79CJrd8
#booksky #5amwritersclub #helpforauthors #writersky #authorsky #bookpublishing #editors #bookmarketing
From Manuscript to Market is available here: a.co/d/79CJrd8
#booksky #5amwritersclub #helpforauthors #writersky #authorsky #bookpublishing #editors #bookmarketing
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Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.
December 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.
#certifiededitor #booksky #editorsky #highereducation #failure #reinvention #careerchange #careergoals #editorialskills
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
As a book judge for the 2025 Self-Published E-book Awards in the #scifi category, I was pleasantly surprised there was no trend in tropes, save for #AI.
🤖Robots/Androids/AI
💀Post-apocalyptic worlds
📆Time travel
🛸Space travel
💾Nanochip #technology
💤Induced hibernation
#awards #sci-fi #art #book
🤖Robots/Androids/AI
💀Post-apocalyptic worlds
📆Time travel
🛸Space travel
💾Nanochip #technology
💤Induced hibernation
#awards #sci-fi #art #book
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I wrote a thing. ✒️
It got published. 📚
Feel free to read my poem, "Semi-aquatic," about the muskrat that swam under the ice behind my childhood home. Published in the MWG Anthology.
#poemoftheday #wildlifeappreciation #winnipeg #art #booksky #freelanceeditor #writepoetry #muskrats #lakelife #poem
It got published. 📚
Feel free to read my poem, "Semi-aquatic," about the muskrat that swam under the ice behind my childhood home. Published in the MWG Anthology.
#poemoftheday #wildlifeappreciation #winnipeg #art #booksky #freelanceeditor #writepoetry #muskrats #lakelife #poem
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I wrote a thing. ✒️
It got published. 📚
Feel free to read my poem, "Semi-aquatic," about the muskrat that swam under the ice behind my childhood home. Published in the MWG Anthology.
#poemoftheday #wildlifeappreciation #winnipeg #art #booksky #freelanceeditor #writepoetry #muskrats #lakelife #poem
It got published. 📚
Feel free to read my poem, "Semi-aquatic," about the muskrat that swam under the ice behind my childhood home. Published in the MWG Anthology.
#poemoftheday #wildlifeappreciation #winnipeg #art #booksky #freelanceeditor #writepoetry #muskrats #lakelife #poem
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Last week, I was featured in the Writers Collective of Canada Facilitator Spotlight. 🔦
#creativewritingevents #writingworkshops #authoreventstoronto #authorsupport #bookishevents #writinggroupmississauga #writinggroupsgta #editor
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#creativewritingevents #writingworkshops #authoreventstoronto #authorsupport #bookishevents #writinggroupmississauga #writinggroupsgta #editor
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Volunteer Facilitator Spotlight: “I was looking for a writing community, and I found community writing.” - Writers Collective of Canada
Meet Jen Jilany. In the spring of this year, Jen encountered her first-ever WCC workshop at the Hazel McCallion Central Library. By September, she was a trained WCC facilitator, co-facilitating...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Last week, I was featured in the Writers Collective of Canada Facilitator Spotlight. 🔦
#creativewritingevents #writingworkshops #authoreventstoronto #authorsupport #bookishevents #writinggroupmississauga #writinggroupsgta #editor
wcc-cec.org/volunteer-fa...
#creativewritingevents #writingworkshops #authoreventstoronto #authorsupport #bookishevents #writinggroupmississauga #writinggroupsgta #editor
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Do you have a #KidLit or #YALit book launching this wk? Or do you want to help boost someone else's #PublicationDay #BookBirthday?
Reply below with info + link to the post.
Only for books launching Oct.20-26th, 2025 #2025-Wk43.
Reply below with info + link to the post.
Only for books launching Oct.20-26th, 2025 #2025-Wk43.
October 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Do you have a #KidLit or #YALit book launching this wk? Or do you want to help boost someone else's #PublicationDay #BookBirthday?
Reply below with info + link to the post.
Only for books launching Oct.20-26th, 2025 #2025-Wk43.
Reply below with info + link to the post.
Only for books launching Oct.20-26th, 2025 #2025-Wk43.
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book."
#booksky #bannedbooks #readeverybook #Library #Eisenhower #bookburning #bookban #bookeditor
#booksky #bannedbooks #readeverybook #Library #Eisenhower #bookburning #bookban #bookeditor
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, born on this day in 1890
Dwight D. Eisenhower, born on this day in 1890
October 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book."
#booksky #bannedbooks #readeverybook #Library #Eisenhower #bookburning #bookban #bookeditor
#booksky #bannedbooks #readeverybook #Library #Eisenhower #bookburning #bookban #bookeditor
Just realized that "Killing two birds with one stone" is actually an awful expression.
Who would want to kill birds? (Even one, let alone two!) 🐦
#Englishlanguage #idioms #birds #editthis #modernlanguage #antiquated #phrases #positivitynotnegativity #editor #strangerthanfiction #dontsayit
Who would want to kill birds? (Even one, let alone two!) 🐦
#Englishlanguage #idioms #birds #editthis #modernlanguage #antiquated #phrases #positivitynotnegativity #editor #strangerthanfiction #dontsayit
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Just realized that "Killing two birds with one stone" is actually an awful expression.
Who would want to kill birds? (Even one, let alone two!) 🐦
#Englishlanguage #idioms #birds #editthis #modernlanguage #antiquated #phrases #positivitynotnegativity #editor #strangerthanfiction #dontsayit
Who would want to kill birds? (Even one, let alone two!) 🐦
#Englishlanguage #idioms #birds #editthis #modernlanguage #antiquated #phrases #positivitynotnegativity #editor #strangerthanfiction #dontsayit
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*Submission reminder*
We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.
More info below🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...
We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.
More info below🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...
Pop up submission window — wild hunt books
Wild Hunt Books are open to unagented submissions from 6-12 October 2025. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K words with a grace of 1000 words, over/under)...
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
*Submission reminder*
We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.
More info below🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...
We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.
More info below🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...
October 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I want going to dress up for Halloween this year until I stumbled across...
October 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt
October 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt
📢ATTENTION Hamilton-area writers 🖋️
We have expanded the Blue Pencil Writing Consults program to the @gritlitfestival.bsky.social audience!
Receive free editorial guidance on up to 2,500 words. Spots are limited! Sign up here: www.gritlit.ca/blue-pencil.
#amwriting #booksky #literaryfest #editor
We have expanded the Blue Pencil Writing Consults program to the @gritlitfestival.bsky.social audience!
Receive free editorial guidance on up to 2,500 words. Spots are limited! Sign up here: www.gritlit.ca/blue-pencil.
#amwriting #booksky #literaryfest #editor
October 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📢ATTENTION Hamilton-area writers 🖋️
We have expanded the Blue Pencil Writing Consults program to the @gritlitfestival.bsky.social audience!
Receive free editorial guidance on up to 2,500 words. Spots are limited! Sign up here: www.gritlit.ca/blue-pencil.
#amwriting #booksky #literaryfest #editor
We have expanded the Blue Pencil Writing Consults program to the @gritlitfestival.bsky.social audience!
Receive free editorial guidance on up to 2,500 words. Spots are limited! Sign up here: www.gritlit.ca/blue-pencil.
#amwriting #booksky #literaryfest #editor
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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
Graham Greene, born on this day in 1904
Graham Greene, born on this day in 1904
October 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
Graham Greene, born on this day in 1904
Graham Greene, born on this day in 1904
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Every day is a good day to share a piece of writing or art you love. Or like. Or found uncomfortable. Or made you question or feel or think. That made you want to smile or cry or paint or draw or love. That reminded you of something you have or lost or could find. That carried your feet another step
October 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Every day is a good day to share a piece of writing or art you love. Or like. Or found uncomfortable. Or made you question or feel or think. That made you want to smile or cry or paint or draw or love. That reminded you of something you have or lost or could find. That carried your feet another step
Writer's Digest has shared their stance on AI:
"WD does not accept, use, or publish any material written by or with the aid of gen AI...The vast majority of publishers do not accept AI-influenced material."
www.writersdigest.com/writers-dige...
#AI #saynotoAI #AIisnotwriting #genAI #writersky
"WD does not accept, use, or publish any material written by or with the aid of gen AI...The vast majority of publishers do not accept AI-influenced material."
www.writersdigest.com/writers-dige...
#AI #saynotoAI #AIisnotwriting #genAI #writersky
Writer's Digest AI Policy
As new technologies emerge, the Writer's Digest team feels it is essential to make our stance on generative AI clear.
www.writersdigest.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Writer's Digest has shared their stance on AI:
"WD does not accept, use, or publish any material written by or with the aid of gen AI...The vast majority of publishers do not accept AI-influenced material."
www.writersdigest.com/writers-dige...
#AI #saynotoAI #AIisnotwriting #genAI #writersky
"WD does not accept, use, or publish any material written by or with the aid of gen AI...The vast majority of publishers do not accept AI-influenced material."
www.writersdigest.com/writers-dige...
#AI #saynotoAI #AIisnotwriting #genAI #writersky
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Dear writers:
Write that story. Edit mercilessly. Send that email. Ignore the haters. Stay humble, but be confident. Get paid. Read a lot. Write despite your insecurities. Support others. Accept helpful criticism. Celebrate everything. Don't panic. Never quit. You got this.
Write that story. Edit mercilessly. Send that email. Ignore the haters. Stay humble, but be confident. Get paid. Read a lot. Write despite your insecurities. Support others. Accept helpful criticism. Celebrate everything. Don't panic. Never quit. You got this.
September 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Dear writers:
Write that story. Edit mercilessly. Send that email. Ignore the haters. Stay humble, but be confident. Get paid. Read a lot. Write despite your insecurities. Support others. Accept helpful criticism. Celebrate everything. Don't panic. Never quit. You got this.
Write that story. Edit mercilessly. Send that email. Ignore the haters. Stay humble, but be confident. Get paid. Read a lot. Write despite your insecurities. Support others. Accept helpful criticism. Celebrate everything. Don't panic. Never quit. You got this.