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Carolina VonKampen 📚 Freelance Editor
@carolinavonkampen.com
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Editor: Books, poetry, content marketing
Member: @acesediting.bsky.social
Speaker: #VCON25 / #ACESVCon25
Former history major. Writer? Reader
Fan: #Survivor #JetLagTheGame #TheTraitors #DragRace
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lol there are multiple reasons I took that org out of my Bsky bio 🙃
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Things I google as a fiction editor that get me on a watchlist, part 257 #amediting #ficitoneditor #bookeditor
Google search for "can you speak after being shot in the heart."
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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the mood rn
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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While #editing an infographic about cybersecurity today, I came across design instructions to represent hackers as “bad” with the color black. This is a common trope in tech content, of course, given the language of “blacklist/whitelist” and “white hat/black hat.”
Graphic from a blog post by The Radical Copyeditor about dark and light metaphors having impact. Text at the bottom says: Be a radical copyeditor: Actively counter the singular use of darkness as a metaphor for negative concepts and lightness as a metaphor for positive concepts. The single story that dark = bad has real impacts.
October 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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A #SpookySeason must-read for fans of #OneLastStop by #CaseyMcQuiston & Everything She Does Is Magic by Bridget Morrissey

The Ghost of You Lingers is a grumpy/sunshine #sapphic #romance with cozy #witch vibes that casts the perfect spell ✨

Buy: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSD8G7WJ #lesbianromance #booksky
October 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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A #spookyseason must-read for fans of #OneLastStop by #CaseyMcQuiston and Everything She Does Is Magic by Bridget Morrissey, The Ghost of You Lingers is a grumpy/sunshine #sapphic #romance with cozy witch vibes that casts the perfect spell.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSD8G7WJ #ffromance #lesbianromance
October 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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A lesbian ghost #romance book that I copyedited is out in the world!!! I love this book so much; it's so fun. Go read it!!!

And follow @catwashington.bsky.social and show them some love as a debut #author!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSD8G7WJ #ff #sapphic #lesbian #ffromance #amreading #amediting
Book cover of The Ghost of You Lingers by Cat Washington showing a ghost woman and a queer punk guitarist holding hands in front of the Mackinac Island bridge.
October 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Happy October! 🍂🎃 I’ve got a busy month: finishing up an urban fantasy book #copyedit, #proofreading a self-help book, starting a dev edit of a fantast novel, and #editing lots of blog posts in between.
A pumpkin-shaped orange candle on my desk with my white bookshelves in the background.
October 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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🙃🙃🙃

Artist: caitlynmarieprints www.instagram.com/caitlynmarie... www.etsy.com/shop/caitlyn...
An illustration of a lil frog that says “doing my brain laundry. separating thoughts into lights and darks.”
September 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Reaching for Rumi, literally and metaphorically. ❤️
A hand reaching for a book of Rumi poems. A cat sits near the book.
September 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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if you're not using this as your thank-you emoji in Slack, what are you waiting for??
slackmojis.com/emojis/6057-ty
The Beanie Babies TY heart tag, a red heart with the letters "ty" in white inside the heart.
September 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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We’d seen Jimbo’s solo tour last year (VERY fun, we got baloney thrown at us, 10/10 👍), but her Joan Rivers is soooooo funny and does not get old. This is her as Dolly Parton #DragRace #WerkTheWorld
September 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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We saw the #DragRace #WerkTheWorld tour yesterday, and it was so fun! I can’t believe we saw Roxxxy Andrews (!!!!!). She was fabulous as Mariah Carey.

I was so impressed with Sasha Velour as host and as both Madonna and Gaga. Onya Nurve was so fun—great energy!
Sasha Velour's opening number. She's in a red dress hovering above the stage. Roxxxy Andrews as Mariah Carey. Onya Nurve as Whitney Houston and Roxxxy Andrews as Mariah Carey singing on stage. Onya Nurve as Beyonce in a gold dress.
September 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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The notebook 😍 thanks, @europaeditions.bsky.social! #booksky #stationery
September 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Thank you to @europaeditions.bsky.social for the beautiful #bookmail! They sent me a copy of Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser, translated by Hildegarde Serle, as well as a #notebook with the cover art. 😍 #booksky #books #amreading www.europaeditions.com/book/9798889...
September 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Behind the surface of your web browser, the internet is a bit like an iceberg. What you see on the surface is only a small part of what’s there.

#VCON25 #ACESVCon25 #amediting #copyediting #factchecking
Graphic of iceberg showing surface web (easy to search), deep web (harder to search), and dark web (potential danger).
September 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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This search operator is SO USEFUL, I use this all the time.

site:

Limits results to those from a specific website or a specific web extension.

Example: site:ku.edu
Example: site:gov

Screenshot example of what this looks like!

#VCON25 #ACESVCon25 #amediting #copyediting #factchecking
Example of site search operator.
September 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Next up at #ACESVCon25: Information Quest: Researching Efficiently and Credibly by @gerrrib.bsky.social

#amediting #freelanceediting #VCon25 #factchecking #writing #writingcommunity #journalism #factcheck #copyediting #copyeditor
Information quest: Researching efficiently and credibly Presented at ACES VCON 25 By Gerri Berendzen.
September 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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YES @rhiannonroot.bsky.social!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 #VCON25 #ACESVCon25 #edibuddies
Screenshot that says Individual Category B. Winner: Rhiannon Root, The Washington Times.
September 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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#Fiction editors!!!

Come on over to this #FictionEditing panel at #ACESVCon25: Oh the Horror! Editing Novels That Make You Squirm by @tanyagold.bsky.social, @cloviseditorial.bsky.social, @racheloestreich.bsky.social.

#amediting #freelanceediting #VCon25 #fictioneditor #bookeditor #bookediting
The Zoom session with Tanya, Rachel, and Genevieve on my laptop, with my bookshelves behind the laptop.
September 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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It's Day 3 of #VCON25! Here's what's on today's conference agenda. #ACESVCon25
Graphic that says Today's Highlights: What's happening today. Today's breakout sessions are at 10:30 a.m. ET and 1:30 p.m. ET. Session Spotlights: 12:30 p.m. ET: The Headline Content Winners and Honoring the 2025 Holden Diversity Fellows. 2:45 p.m. ET: A packed closing session that includes the Pun Slam final, #VCON25 contest winners announced, and the big reveal: the location of ACES 2027, our 30th anniversary celebration. Don't forget to join us in SpatialChat at 11:30 a.m. ET and 3:30 p.m. ET.
September 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Acrobat Accessibility Checker identifies:

Tags
Reading order
Errors

#VCON25 #ACESVCon25
Screenshot of Adobe Accessibility Checker showing a document outline with headers and paragraphs.
September 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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You can use Microsoft Word's #Accessibility Checker to check styles, alt text, and headings. For example, you want to label headings with the "heading" Word style so that screen readers correctly identify headers vs. body text.

#VCON25 #ACESVCon25 #amediting
Screenshot of the Check Accessibility tool in Word.
September 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Next up at #ACESVCon25: Beyond Semantics: Embedding Accessibility Checks into Every Editing Pass by @themonbon.bsky.social!

#amediting #freelanceediting #VCon25
Title slide for the session Beyond Semantics: Embedding Accessibility Checks into Every Editing Pass by Moniqua Paullet, ADS.
September 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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To advise your client on the merits of humanpowered #editing, align your recommendations to the client’s priorities.

Consider these 5 aspects that affect the weight of quality:
📌 Audience
📌 Purpose
📌 Impact
📌 Technicality
📌 Length

#VCON25 #ACESVCon25 #amediting #freelanceeditor #copyediting
September 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM