Amazing how I can remember continuity issues like someone’s scar being described in passing as above the left eye and, oops, 250+ pages later it’s on the right, but I cannot remember the reason I just went into my laundry room. 🤷🏻♀️ #amediting #amliving #amcopyediting
October 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Having to use #CMOS 17 when I need to look up something quick for author-date citations because CMOS 18's citation chapters are now stupidly difficult to navigate 🫠
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October 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Just finished up working on an adult romance with a main couple who had the absolute best tension and chemistry! And it was a setting I wasn't super familiar with, so I learned a lot too! Anyway, A+ storytelling. I hope it finds an audience. #amediting #amcopyediting #amproofreading
October 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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New week, same project, same earworm 😊
🎶 ‘… What if none of the Pickwick triplets did it? Who’d have had a menacing motive and hid it?’ 🎶
#AmCopyediting #MurderMystery
🎶 ‘… What if none of the Pickwick triplets did it? Who’d have had a menacing motive and hid it?’ 🎶
#AmCopyediting #MurderMystery
When you’re #copyediting a locked-room murder mystery and your brain insists on keep singing at you ‘Which of the Pickwick triplets did it, who of the crew would commit this crime…’ 🎶
#OMITB #Earworm #FriYay
#OMITB #Earworm #FriYay
a man walking past a sign that says savoy on it
Alt: Steve Martin as Charles-Haden Savage in ‘Only Murders in the Building’ walking jauntily in front of bassinets on a small, makeshift stage, in a scene where he has to sing a patter song.
media.tenor.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Copyediting an absolute gem of a book right now. Writing is superb, storytelling is hugely entertaining, pace is spot on.
They're not all like this, but even when they're not, there's joy in helping to get it there. That I get to do this for a living is simply amazing. #amcopyediting #amediting
They're not all like this, but even when they're not, there's joy in helping to get it there. That I get to do this for a living is simply amazing. #amcopyediting #amediting
September 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Today's edits include having to delete the word "former" to describe "President Donald Trump" for a piece that was written in 2024. 🫠
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#AmCopyediting
September 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Fellow copy editors: How are you flagging content that may be AI generated? #amcopyediting #amediting
August 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The hyphen in brand-new, IMO, is entirely unnecessary. #amediting #amcopyediting.
August 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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For the current book I #AmCopyediting, I have had to:
-verify Octavia Butler quotes
-watch music videos to confirm descriptions of dancers' wardrobes were accurate
-google old-school Missy Elliott lyrics
Not a bad gig.
-verify Octavia Butler quotes
-watch music videos to confirm descriptions of dancers' wardrobes were accurate
-google old-school Missy Elliott lyrics
Not a bad gig.
July 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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There's been such serendipity to the projects I've been getting lately. I get really into something weird and niche and cool in my spare time, and suddenly a memoir or encyclopedia about weird/niche/cool thing is in my inbox.
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July 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Chicago style no longer requires place of publication in citations. Authors: If you put these in your citations, a copyeditor needs to take them out manually, so if you read this, please be a champ and skip them the first time around.
#AmCopyediting #CMOS18
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July 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Books I copyedited have been spotted in the #ALA vendor hall!
(When Women Get Sick by Rebecca Bloom and The Wounds Are the Witness by Yolanda Pierce)
#AmCopyediting #Copyeditor #BroadleafBooks
(When Women Get Sick by Rebecca Bloom and The Wounds Are the Witness by Yolanda Pierce)
#AmCopyediting #Copyeditor #BroadleafBooks
June 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Anyway: Vague shoutout to the wonderful author I'm currently copyediting, who penned a deeply felt, beautifully written memoir centered around movies. Excited to share closer to publication. Happy to edit human-written words worth reading.
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June 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Someone once said, "Sometimes I think I knew grammar and punctuation better before I started learning all the rules."
That's not true, of course, but I'll tell you what: Cumulative vs coordinate adjectives can really get me twisted up at times. #amcopyediting #amediting #TOOMANYADJECTIVES
That's not true, of course, but I'll tell you what: Cumulative vs coordinate adjectives can really get me twisted up at times. #amcopyediting #amediting #TOOMANYADJECTIVES
June 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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It's never easy jumping into a copyedit midway through an established series, so shout out to the nameless copy editor who worked on book one of this sprawling high fantasy series that just landed in my lap. That style sheet has been an absolute lifesaver. #amcopyediting #amediting
June 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I can work on a 400-page heavy copy edit no problem, hit that deadline no problem, and yet doing the invoice for it feels like such a chore. Why am I like this? lol #amediting #amcopyediting #amgettingpaid
June 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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When you've had to reference it so much lately that you memorize it. I'm looking at you CMoS 6.67 LOWERCASE OR CAPITAL LETTER AFTER A COLON lol #amediting #amcopyediting
June 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Dickwad, douchenozzle, and douchewad all making appearances on this Style Sheet. 🥰 #amcopyediting #amediting
June 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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So irritating that we have 'twentysomething' and 'thirtysomething' but not 'sixtysomething' or what have you.
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#amcopyediting #amediting
May 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Sometimes I wish I had a direct line to Benjamin Dreyer so I could pick his brain, but then I remember I kinda do!
Dreyer's English (specifically page 124 in this instance!) to the rescue again, yay!! #amcopyediting #amediting
Dreyer's English (specifically page 124 in this instance!) to the rescue again, yay!! #amcopyediting #amediting
May 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Fellow copy editors: Do you ever read the books you worked on after they've been published?
I cannot. I would obsess over every little thing, and god forbid I spotted a typo. 😬 #amcopyediting #amediting
I cannot. I would obsess over every little thing, and god forbid I spotted a typo. 😬 #amcopyediting #amediting
May 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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May 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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I have strong opinions about Realtor being capitalized. (Yes, yes, I know it's because of its trademark.) But at least give us a "less common" option using the lowercase "r." 😤
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"Too puffed up" is the perfect way to describe it:
www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2018/07...
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"Too puffed up" is the perfect way to describe it:
www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2018/07...
The Grammarphobia Blog: Is it ‘realtor’ or ‘Realtor’?
Why is the term “realtor” often capitalized?
www.grammarphobia.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Finished a copyedit yesterday that featured the most amazing descriptions of food you can imagine. I probably looked in my fridge a hundred times during it, just hoping something equally as delicious would magically appear. #amediting #amcopyediting #amhungry
April 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I've been copyediting a non-fiction middle grade book about space. It's fun and interesting and to be honest, I am learning stuff. ha. #amediting #amcopyediting #amhappy
April 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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