In her last blog, “The Texture of Technology,” Beth touched on the subject of e-books. Talk about e-books always prompts me to think about...

Just before the August 31 deadline for switching from analogue to digital, I phoned Bell and ordered FibeTV. Up until now I have had no cable at all...

Slipping singly from my fingers, lettuce seeds drop like punctuation marks, organic ellipses marking the start of a new season of cultivation. Onion...

Visitors and our fellow fourth-floor dwellers often comment on how little noise we make in our office. It seems to surprise them that three editors ...

A few weeks ago an author approached The Editing Company for some help with rewriting the synopsis of her manuscript. I was lucky enough to be put to ...

I just came back from a short vacation to Jacksonville, Florida. Or JAX, for short. I was visiting family and touring the Floridian countryside, see...

In early June, Michael Redhill announced his departure from Brick. After over 10 years of editorial involvement with the literary magazine, #87—...

Happy Canada Day and Happy Pride Day! It’s July and summer has arrived. We’ve been keeping busy through May and June with new and ongoin...

Every editor’s nightmare is this: finding a spelling error in the printed publication of the manuscript you just edited after the fact. I...

Nothing has ever shaken my editorial self as much as this comment did. It came from an influential editor from a successful publishing company ...

Plagiarism has become rampant in this age of instantly accessible information. There have been countless cases of stolen words, images and art, from...

For a while I thought I was hearing things. The sounds came and went so fast, it was impossible to confirm them with the naked ear. But yes, with clos...

Editors and writers: some see them as bitter enemies, some describe a beautiful partnership—and some say that editors are just writers who&rsq...

When I was in elementary school, from book reports to geography projects, the tried-and-true resource for all assignments was the local Toronto Public...

We thought we’d give you a quick overview of some of the projects we’ve been working on here at The Editing Company. We’re keeping...

Okay, maybe I should’ve stayed out of it. But he caught my attention, and I wanted to see what he’d do.     This morning, a...

It’s official: “LOL” has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. So has “OMG,” for that matter. In my last blog pos...

In the spring of 2010, two authors agreed to become our inaugural writers for The Editing Company’s Writers Support Package. Ann Eyerman and B...

One of The Editing Company’s missions is being fulfilled: We are building relationships with new businesses and associations.  &...

As a recent addition to the TEC team, with responsibility for marketing and communications, one of my first tasks has been to update and “twea...

When I was a kid, my parents’ bookshelves held an incredible 27-volume set of Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedias. I would frequently rush to Fu...

Sheila Heti was TEC’s second adopt-an-author at last September’s Word On The Street Festival. I enjoyed reading Sheila’s earlier w...

Has this happened to you? You set up a coffee date with a friend for a Sunday afternoon, feeling quite certain the name of that particular coffee sh...

As an editor, I’ve spent countless hours working with lines and lines of text—it’s hard to think of editing as anything else. But th...

  We have been editing and proofreading a number of manuscripts over the past few weeks that have made us here at TEC come to realize just how...