Publishing Trends

AUGUST 24, 2023

Seema Mahanian joins Pamela Dorman Books as senior editor and reports to Dorman. After three decades at Random House , Benjamin Dreyer , VP, executive managing editor and copy chief, will retire in December. Jessica Pellien takes on the newly created role of head of communications. She was previously at Grand Centra l.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 16, 2023

Copywriter A copywriter writes sales messages in the form of texts, or copy, for the purpose of promoting products and services. They create: sales letters blog posts product descriptions app home pages white papers lead magnet copy There are plenty of copywriting opportunities as there are different types of copywriting.

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Top Content Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2022

You might have big thoughts and ideas, but they won’t serve you if you can’t communicate them clearly. Developmental editing , substantive editing , line editing , and copy editing each tackle a specific problem or concern with your writing. Line editing Line editing and copy editing are close cousins.

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Constant Content

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I first heard about Constant Content in 2017 from a friend of mine who was working as the lead copy editor at a large online retailer. At the time, they were hiring internal copywriters and copy editors, and I passed their copywriter test. I’m still working on projects for Constant Content, all these years later.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 14, 2023

A lot of communication became through the written word, through documents. I think a lot of people realized actually how effective communicating through writing and putting your thoughts down on paper can be. ” But I would say it's much more likely that your copy editor would put you in that situation than any AI tool would.

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Smart Blogger

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Fashion writers play a vital role in the industry because they help fashion businesses communicate their messages and educate the public about trends, styles, and beauty. Previous job postings include: Copywriter Commerce writer Communications manager. Previous job postings include: Freelance writer Copy editor Copywriter.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

If you use the word “copy-editor,” don’t write it elsewhere in your post as “copy editor” or “copyeditor.”. I’ve even written “letter’s” in first draft copy when I intended to write “letters.” You publish first-draft copy. Don’t alternate between the two. Hyphenated words. Numbered items.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

They could use someone to do their research, proofreading, copy editing jobs, etc. You can also try: Getting an introduction from someone who knows them; Connecting with them on social and building a relationship; Creating a piece of content (perhaps copy for a landing page?) The good news? That’s where you come in.

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Contently

JUNE 12, 2024

You have an internal marketing team, and you manage a team of freelancers—writers, designers, editors, etc. Email and Google Docs are your go-to forms of communication and collaboration. Workflow management: Assign tasks, track progress, and set clear deadlines for content creators, editors, and other team members.

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Publishing Trends

AUGUST 5, 2024

Hachette Book Group , Sophie Cottrell , SVP of corporate communications will leave the company at the end of August after working for the company for the past 35 years. At Penguin Random House , Gillian Arthur has joined Crown as proofreader and copy editor. Jerry Jensen , national accounts manager has left the company.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

They cut out stuff that doesn’t support the ideas you’re trying to communicate. Once the structural editor is done and you’ve made the changed they’ve recommended, that’s when it’s time to bring in a line editor (often called a copy editor). which bits need to be expanded on).

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JULY 15, 2022

It’s more that email, texting, and team apps encourage brevity at the expense of context, and punctuation steps up to communicate tone of voice. Maybe it’s time to popularize  more kinds of punctuation  and find  new ways to communicate tone and intent in writing. It was a vinyl copy of  Help! )

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

When I rolled out of TV news, like a lot of us do, we go into marketing communications. Because not only is it my schedule, it's their editor's schedule, and the line editor, the copy editor, each person, their schedule. Georgina: About four years before that. NASA's here, Redstone Arsenal, lots of military.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

APRIL 7, 2022

To communicate locations in a book. This contents page simultaneously previews the writer’s wit and hints at one of the core emotional issues in this story about a disputed inheritance. Table of contents for the hardcover edition of Stradal,  The Lager Queen of Minnesota.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 24, 2024

She has people who are professional developmental editors, copy editors, formatters, everything you could think of under the sun that could really get the book to a professional level that a traditional publisher would provide. In their company, Julie Broad is the owner, and I've become friends with her.

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Arrant Pedantry

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And even if they are, are they expecting that information to be communicated via a comma or the lack thereof? I suspected that most people who aren’t editors aren’t reading as much into those commas as we think we’re putting into them, so I turned to Facebook to ask my friends and family members.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2025

It's a way too of communicating to the reader in a subtle way what the structure of your book is. So they'll write a draft just as they have always done, they'll do this reverse outline, and then they'll do their own revision round , and then be able to come to me and go straight into copy editing because they just built that in.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 23, 2023

The press director called the editor and told her to “rein in her author,” which was no small task. In the end, almost everyone at the press stopped taking this author’s calls, and while the cover issue was eventually resolved, the author chose to communicate solely with the managing editor after that point.

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