Pam Eidson
@ebeforei.bsky.social
E before I editorial services.
Upending the patriarchy through copyediting.
Editing for nonprofits and for authors who respect diversity.
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bio.site/ebeforei
Upending the patriarchy through copyediting.
Editing for nonprofits and for authors who respect diversity.
she/her
bio.site/ebeforei
Excellent list of resources and call to action. After reading it I feel hopeful and more motivated.
Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Excellent list of resources and call to action. After reading it I feel hopeful and more motivated.
I've been seeking joy as an antidote to all the chaos and turmoil. If you have any feeds on Bluesky that bring you unfettered joy, please reply!
I can recommend the Birds! feed at bsky.app/profile/did:.... I don't post there, just view lovely photos of birds!
#FindJoy
I can recommend the Birds! feed at bsky.app/profile/did:.... I don't post there, just view lovely photos of birds!
#FindJoy
January 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I've been seeking joy as an antidote to all the chaos and turmoil. If you have any feeds on Bluesky that bring you unfettered joy, please reply!
I can recommend the Birds! feed at bsky.app/profile/did:.... I don't post there, just view lovely photos of birds!
#FindJoy
I can recommend the Birds! feed at bsky.app/profile/did:.... I don't post there, just view lovely photos of birds!
#FindJoy
Another special day happens on MLK Jr Day this year: Monday, January 20, is Penguin Awareness Day. 🐧🐧
Friends & I will be staying aware of #penguins all day long.
Read about, stitch, draw, or needle-felt a #penguin.
Take care of your heart.
#AmEditing #FindJoy #NoDoomscrolling
Friends & I will be staying aware of #penguins all day long.
Read about, stitch, draw, or needle-felt a #penguin.
Take care of your heart.
#AmEditing #FindJoy #NoDoomscrolling
a couple of penguins standing next to each other in the snow
Alt: Two baby emperor chick penguins stand next to each other in the snow. They twitch their heads and are clearly siblings.
media.tenor.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Another special day happens on MLK Jr Day this year: Monday, January 20, is Penguin Awareness Day. 🐧🐧
Friends & I will be staying aware of #penguins all day long.
Read about, stitch, draw, or needle-felt a #penguin.
Take care of your heart.
#AmEditing #FindJoy #NoDoomscrolling
Friends & I will be staying aware of #penguins all day long.
Read about, stitch, draw, or needle-felt a #penguin.
Take care of your heart.
#AmEditing #FindJoy #NoDoomscrolling
@freshlookediting.ca Alicia, you've been so helpful about your end-of-year methods. I like hearing about them! Even if I only take the coloring (heh) idea to heart, I will probably percolate on some others. Thanks! And thanks to #ACESChat!
December 18, 2024 at 9:57 PM
@freshlookediting.ca Alicia, you've been so helpful about your end-of-year methods. I like hearing about them! Even if I only take the coloring (heh) idea to heart, I will probably percolate on some others. Thanks! And thanks to #ACESChat!
Alicia has given me some ideas here on coloring and doodling my way into 2025!
#ACESChat #AmEditing #Editors #Freelancing
#ACESChat #AmEditing #Editors #Freelancing
A5a: Preparing = Sitting down with my planner, some colourful pens, and my imagination. Writing a list of everything I can think of, large or small, that I’d like to do or look into is helpful because then I can take that list and organize it/pare it down and create goals. #ACESChat
December 18, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Alicia has given me some ideas here on coloring and doodling my way into 2025!
#ACESChat #AmEditing #Editors #Freelancing
#ACESChat #AmEditing #Editors #Freelancing
I'm debating whether I want to do a formal end-of-year report to myself this year.
I think I'm reacting to so many wrap-ups being numbers driven, when what I really want to know is
Did I help people?
Did I have enjoy what I was doing?
#ACESChat #AmEditing #Editors #Freelancing
I think I'm reacting to so many wrap-ups being numbers driven, when what I really want to know is
Did I help people?
Did I have enjoy what I was doing?
#ACESChat #AmEditing #Editors #Freelancing
December 18, 2024 at 9:08 PM
I'm debating whether I want to do a formal end-of-year report to myself this year.
I think I'm reacting to so many wrap-ups being numbers driven, when what I really want to know is
Did I help people?
Did I have enjoy what I was doing?
#ACESChat #AmEditing #Editors #Freelancing
I think I'm reacting to so many wrap-ups being numbers driven, when what I really want to know is
Did I help people?
Did I have enjoy what I was doing?
#ACESChat #AmEditing #Editors #Freelancing
Me, too, Jamie! It's my first #ACESChat on Bluesky. I'm a nonfiction editor based in Atlanta. I like working with academics, nonprofits, indie authors, and (dare I say it?) textbooks!
And I adore Alicia! @freshlookediting.ca
#ACESChat #AmEditing #Editors #Freelancing
And I adore Alicia! @freshlookediting.ca
#ACESChat #AmEditing #Editors #Freelancing
December 18, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Me, too, Jamie! It's my first #ACESChat on Bluesky. I'm a nonfiction editor based in Atlanta. I like working with academics, nonprofits, indie authors, and (dare I say it?) textbooks!
And I adore Alicia! @freshlookediting.ca
#ACESChat #AmEditing #Editors #Freelancing
And I adore Alicia! @freshlookediting.ca
#ACESChat #AmEditing #Editors #Freelancing
Happy launch day to @madeleinevasaly.com for The Proofreader's Guide to Comic Book Style!
One thing I learned from Madeleine is that in comics sometimes the letter i has the crossbars of a serif font, and sometimes it doesn't! Get her book to learn why!
One thing I learned from Madeleine is that in comics sometimes the letter i has the crossbars of a serif font, and sometimes it doesn't! Get her book to learn why!
November 22, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Happy launch day to @madeleinevasaly.com for The Proofreader's Guide to Comic Book Style!
One thing I learned from Madeleine is that in comics sometimes the letter i has the crossbars of a serif font, and sometimes it doesn't! Get her book to learn why!
One thing I learned from Madeleine is that in comics sometimes the letter i has the crossbars of a serif font, and sometimes it doesn't! Get her book to learn why!
November 22, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Happy launch day to @madeleinevasaly.com for The Proofreader's Guide to Comic Book Style!
One thing I learned from Madeleine is that in comics sometimes the letter i has the crossbars of a serif font, and sometimes it doesn't! Get her book to learn why!
One thing I learned from Madeleine is that in comics sometimes the letter i has the crossbars of a serif font, and sometimes it doesn't! Get her book to learn why!
September 17, 2024 at 10:19 PM
@ebrenner.bsky.social , CONGRATULATIONS on winning the Robinson Prize!!!!!!!
April 6, 2024 at 5:14 PM
@ebrenner.bsky.social , CONGRATULATIONS on winning the Robinson Prize!!!!!!!
Save people from unnecessary hyphens. 😂 #ACES2024 #ThatWordChat
April 5, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Save people from unnecessary hyphens. 😂 #ACES2024 #ThatWordChat
We're moving into spring! Time for renewal and wild temperature changes. I like seeing all the colors. What do you like about spring?
March 20, 2024 at 11:51 PM
We're moving into spring! Time for renewal and wild temperature changes. I like seeing all the colors. What do you like about spring?
Emily Atkin (is she on Bluesky?) writes that we must spell out the major causes of the climate crisis: fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial agriculture. Implications for editors and freelance editors. #AmEditing
This article is free to everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
This article is free to everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
Calling this "climate change" is not enough
Journalists and meteorologists must go further, and call rapid hurricane intensification a symptom of fossil fuels.
open.substack.com
October 27, 2023 at 12:12 AM
Emily Atkin (is she on Bluesky?) writes that we must spell out the major causes of the climate crisis: fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial agriculture. Implications for editors and freelance editors. #AmEditing
This article is free to everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
This article is free to everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
This FB post from 2017 popped up. I didn't become a professional freelance editor until two years later. He's now in college.
#AmEditing #OxfordComma
#AmEditing #OxfordComma
October 24, 2023 at 12:54 PM
This FB post from 2017 popped up. I didn't become a professional freelance editor until two years later. He's now in college.
#AmEditing #OxfordComma
#AmEditing #OxfordComma
One of the first things I did here at Bluesky was find the #birds. Search by #birds or by feather 🪶, and every single day you get to see pretty photos of birds! (Request if you want to post there, but it's free to spectate!) Bring beauty to your day. #AmEditing
October 4, 2023 at 10:19 PM
One of the first things I did here at Bluesky was find the #birds. Search by #birds or by feather 🪶, and every single day you get to see pretty photos of birds! (Request if you want to post there, but it's free to spectate!) Bring beauty to your day. #AmEditing
Spot on.
#ACESVcon23
#ACESVcon23
With #ACESvCON next week, it's a good time to repost this.
What people think editors talk about at conferences:
"All writers are ignoramuses!"
"We must scold them all! For their own sake."
What editors actually talk about:
books
bookstores
stetpets
style guides
being an introvert
Star Trek
What people think editors talk about at conferences:
"All writers are ignoramuses!"
"We must scold them all! For their own sake."
What editors actually talk about:
books
bookstores
stetpets
style guides
being an introvert
Star Trek
September 29, 2023 at 9:33 PM
Spot on.
#ACESVcon23
#ACESVcon23
Today at #ACESVCon23, I seem to be better at ignoring the chat so I can listen to what the presenter is saying. Or perhaps I was clinging to every word of Melanie Faizer's deep web search techniques!
September 28, 2023 at 4:56 PM
Today at #ACESVCon23, I seem to be better at ignoring the chat so I can listen to what the presenter is saying. Or perhaps I was clinging to every word of Melanie Faizer's deep web search techniques!
Stare into space now! Great way to recharge before Thursday. #ACESVcon23
Thanks, everyone at #ACESVCon23, for a great first day! My brain is delightfully full and I'm going to go stare into space now 😊
September 28, 2023 at 2:37 AM
Stare into space now! Great way to recharge before Thursday. #ACESVcon23
It's National Punctuation Day ":'?!;/.,#&@! _--~`{}]✓[><](-_-)
Which reminds me there is a website that strips all but the punctuation out of text:
Just-the-punctuation.glitch.me
#AmEditing
Which reminds me there is a website that strips all but the punctuation out of text:
Just-the-punctuation.glitch.me
#AmEditing
September 24, 2023 at 11:32 PM
It's National Punctuation Day ":'?!;/.,#&@! _--~`{}]✓[><](-_-)
Which reminds me there is a website that strips all but the punctuation out of text:
Just-the-punctuation.glitch.me
#AmEditing
Which reminds me there is a website that strips all but the punctuation out of text:
Just-the-punctuation.glitch.me
#AmEditing
Best anecdote I've heard in ages on the need for editing and proofreading. Freelance editors, take note. #AmEditing #spellcheckwon'tsaveyou
My best answer to that: the time a bunch of academic men objected strenuously to the publisher insisting on proofreading their MS: it mentioned activity in the pubic sector and described a downward shit in the economy. They shut up after that.
September 11, 2023 at 1:24 PM
Best anecdote I've heard in ages on the need for editing and proofreading. Freelance editors, take note. #AmEditing #spellcheckwon'tsaveyou
I've read plenty of books in my life where I wondered how so many errors got through. Then I became an editor and saw how it happened. On a heavy copyedit, I might have multiple queries per paragraph ("Did you mean x or z when you said this?") Here's the math. #AmEditing
I see "Why can't editors catch 100% of errors in one pass?" is making the rounds again.
Seems like a good opportunity to plug my blog post on editor catch rates and what you can realistically expect as an author: emberediting.com/2021/12/how-...
Seems like a good opportunity to plug my blog post on editor catch rates and what you can realistically expect as an author: emberediting.com/2021/12/how-...
How Much Can You Expect an Editor to Catch? - Ember Editing
Many self-publishing authors have an idea of how many errors they want their editor to catch. Some expect their editor to offer perfection—and anything less is the opposite of a job well done. This ...
emberediting.com
September 10, 2023 at 9:52 PM
I've read plenty of books in my life where I wondered how so many errors got through. Then I became an editor and saw how it happened. On a heavy copyedit, I might have multiple queries per paragraph ("Did you mean x or z when you said this?") Here's the math. #AmEditing
Not at #ciep2023; nor have I ever been! But I'm really excited for those of you who are there. Keep posting! #EditorCon #AmEditing
September 9, 2023 at 11:16 PM
Not at #ciep2023; nor have I ever been! But I'm really excited for those of you who are there. Keep posting! #EditorCon #AmEditing
I remodeled my Word Ribbon, building a new Habitat tab to take the place of Home. The groups are named after penguin species. It's possible this makes me a little too happy.
#AmEditing #freelance #editors
#AmEditing #freelance #editors
September 6, 2023 at 6:24 PM
I remodeled my Word Ribbon, building a new Habitat tab to take the place of Home. The groups are named after penguin species. It's possible this makes me a little too happy.
#AmEditing #freelance #editors
#AmEditing #freelance #editors
For real.
true for editors too! we all have different strengths and specialties, and we all click with different types of clients. we aren't in competition with each other! #AmEditing
The one way to fuck over your career as an author real quick is to think that other authors in your genre are your competition and not your COMMUNITY. In business, we are all in these trenches together. And a great way to isolate yourself is by treating other authors like competitors.
September 4, 2023 at 2:20 PM
For real.