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...
An apology to our readers! We know we are late in posting a blog. In fact, we are seriously out of sync. We have reasons for falling so behind, and ...
In September, The Editing Company adopted two authors at the Word On The Street Festival, Sheila Heti and Richard B. Wright. As thanks for our spo...
Today is our last day at 360 Bloor St. West, Suite 507. The Editing Company is moving on Monday, November 1, 2010. They say that with a new ...
Like so many of us, I watched the most remarkable rescue of the Chilean miners over the past few days. I am awed and inspired by this engineering fe...
Greetings from London, everyone! For the past eleven days I have been having quite a time exploring and learning about this amazing, historical, and...
Another very busy and successful Word On The Street (WOTS) came and went in Toronto this past weekend on Sunday, September 26, 2010. The festiv...
In my life outside of TEC, I also work as a sessional English instructor, meaning I am hired on a sessional (or semester by semester) basis to teach...
Autumn is almost upon us and, as the seasons change, it’s always nice to reflect on what we’ve done and look ahead to the future.  ...
As an editor who works primarily for the Canadian market, I am amazed at all the subtle differences that separate Canadian and American English, and...
In last week’s blog, Camille mentioned her disdain for the use of the word “impact” as a verb. You’re definitely not in a on...
I have a 2-year-old son, and every day I find joy in the way he makes meaning of his world through words. Often I am just so pleased that he’s...
When a writer shows her/his work to someone and asks them to read it, there is the inevitable dread that she/he might hear those infamous words, &ld...
Crash blossoms: Headlines Gone Wrong Shealah Stratton What’s a crash blossom, you ask? Ben Zimmer wrote an article about the phenome...
During my third year at university, the professor of one of my copy-editing courses began her first seminar by listing the names of several useful s...
September 2015 We are reposting this blog from 2010 because the issue of copyright is still relevant, and the research challenges we faced with...
I get excited about proofreading. I approach a project as I would a puzzle or a game. The challenge for me is to find as many errors as possib...
When people ask what I do, it’s not uncommon for my response "I'm a copy editor" to elicit a blank or confused expression. Outsid...
On Saturday June 19, TEC editors Shealah, Nadine, and Jennifer Day (our on-call fiction editor) attended Fiction...
On June 18, after eight months of development, countless meetings, writing and rewriting and writing some more, The Editing Company launched it...