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Rather than write down my goals and not review them again until the end of the year, I thought it would be a good idea to start doing ...

Lots of editors get hung up on the use of social media to market their businesses … I suspect it starts to feel like something w...

I have a complicated relationship with social media. Sometimes I love it. Sometimes I hate it. I use it in both a professional and per...

If you don’t know much about steampunk, you probably think this literary genre is just science fiction set in Victorian times. B...

Small Business Chat is a blog series orchestrated by Liz Dexter over at Libro Editing. Over the years, Liz has interviewed all differe...

Think about your favourite book. What specifically do you love about it? I bet one of the things you love most is a particular charact...

If you’re a freelance editor, have you ever asked yourself how many hours a day you should spend editing? You might wonder how y...

Cyberpunk is a genre that has been pithily characterised as ‘high tech, low life’. Sure, it’s all about hackers and far-out tech, but ...

If there’s one thing that drives me bonkers in the editorial world, it’s the lack of coherent descriptions for all the different edito...

I caught up with one of my past clients, Gina Maya, whose surrealist novel Utopia in Danzig I had previously critiqued and ...

Commas. They look so insignificant and innocent, but in reality they’re tricky little monsters that can have a big impact on a piece o...

Most of us are familiar with surrealist images like Salvador Dali’s Three Sphinxes of Bikini, but even though surrealism was – and sti...