When you haven’t had to look for a job in over a decade, you forget quite how much time it takes up. While I stomp both the online and physical streets of London’s publishing industry, and try to make money via freelance editing, Pile o’ Books is wanting of attention. So while I gather the [...]
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Being an Editor
Posted in book editing, P'o'B babble, Publishing, tagged postaweek2011, things editors get worked up about on 1 July, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New Year Treats
Posted in Books, P'o'B babble, Publishing, Reading, tagged book-loving souls, e-books, postaweek2011, reading revolutions on 30 January, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If asked for phrases which describe the majority of book editors,’technologically enlightened’ and ‘embracers of change’ wouldn’t spring to the mind of most. It’s harsh criticism and a notion I think is scattered about too breezily. Book editors need to be calm, organised, consistent, focussed people—and if that leads to a group personality which sometimes seems a [...]
E is for Editing
Posted in book editing, Books, Carol Fisher Saller, non-fiction, Publishing, Reading, tagged reading books about your job, things editors get worked up about on 6 June, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Chicago is some folks’ kind of town (the Blues, Obama, deep dish pizza…) and The Chicago is my kind of style guide* – there’s some swot editorial dagginess for you. Trust me, book editors everywhere are sniggering over their cappuccinos right now. I warn you that posting on our ‘E’ book, The Subversive Copyeditor: Advice from Chicago by Carol Fisher Saller, may [...]
Book 35: A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Posted in fiction, Lorrie Moore, Publishing, Reading on 31 December, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Back when Pile o’ Books was trundling its virtual suitcase through the glory of Canada, I promised to one day praise the golly-gosh fantabulousness of my book group. And as we hurtle past the tinsel-end of the year the time has come! Book groups can conjure a loungeroom of soccer mums floating in sav blanc and complaining about their [...]
Pile o’ Books Supports Oz Books and Publishing
Posted in Publishing on 29 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
