Self-publishing opportunities allow authors to reach their audiences on their own schedules and through their own publishing initiatives. An important...

It's still the beginning of a new year, and that usually means lots of new authors are out there working on the first draft of that book they've been ...

Newsletters, websites, business cards, advertisements — social media icons are everywhere. These icons are shorthand symbols that can send users to yo...

Copyright and permissions can be a tricky subject for any author to navigate. At TEC, we often get questions and queries from authors about whther the...

Editing training can teach you many things – grammar intricacies, plotting, structuring, developing proper flow, etc. But there’s more to being an edi...

To be an editor is a rewarding career choice. There are so many different types of editing and so many different types of editors. And for those in th...

Independent Canadian publishers help define the Canadian literary scene. In 2019, we published the first listing of 5 such publishers for emerging aut...

Editorial work entails a variety of different jobs. These include substantive editing, line editing, and proofreading. Because the process of editoria...

As the world grows dark and cold in the Northern Hemisphere, cultures across the globe would normally gather together to drive away the gloom. However...

Inclusive writing is often confused with politically correct writing, but political correctness isn’t an author’s main goal when writing inclusively. ...

Punctuation marks are the signposts of prose. They indicate what’s important and where to pause. They add rhythm to your sentences. They help your rea...

When I first wrote this blog, we were just three months into the worst global pandemic in over a century. It is November and we have been living in th...

Emphatic writing allows writers the opportunity to drive home the importance of letters, words, phrases, sentences, and ideas. Aside from mechanical c...

Imagine you go to your local market to do some shopping. You have your list and you browse the aisles, choosing the products you want and the products...

Our blog series on confusables has remained popular over the years, so we thought it was time to post a new list. This one includes some explanations ...

October 2020 is drawing to a close, and pandemic-fatigued children and adults are turning to the warm embrace of holiday nostalgia to help ease their ...

In this week's blog, we decided to share some of the most basic editing rules that editors must remember to follow, regardless of what type of text th...

Citing sources from the internet is something most academic writers do all the time; papers can be written without consulting a single sheet of paper....

Though I can agree with the adage that anyone can write, we seldom take the time to unpack how people come to the writing process. In my world of acad...

Independent Canadian publishers help define the Canadian literary scene. In 2019, we published the first listing of 5 such publishers for emerging aut...

We thought we would repost former TEC Editor Melissa’s blog this week to help us review four of the most common punctuation-related errors or inconsis...

Every year, I get a much-needed break from the city when my family rents a cottage in the country. We thought the COVID-19 outbreak had made that impo...

When Toronto declared a lockdown and I knew I’d be working at home indefinitely, I realized I had a problem — I would still be doing editing work, but...

Your business documents are vital to getting your message across, differentiating your organization from others, and reflecting your brand. Never befo...

If you've had some extra time on your hands lately, you might be using it to finally finish that manuscript you've been working on! In this blog from ...