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Bibliography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I copyedited and indexed Janet Conway et al’s Cross-Border Solidarities<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and Dr Gail Gazelle’s Mindful MD<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I copyedited Chapter 10 of Volume 4 in this anthology<\/a>: “Towards a World History,” by Claudia Jarzebowski.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was the (and then a) copyeditor for Inkitt’s reading app, Galatea. I really only worked on a small selection of what’s currently available on the app\u2014which has exploded\u2014but I worked on over 40 books published there, including My Sexy Stepbrother is a Werebear<\/em>, Seeing Scarlett<\/em>, Riders of Tyr<\/em>, Gideon<\/em>, as well as some of the sequels to the original Galatea stories: Millennium Wolves, My Cowboy, Requiem City, Her Possessive Guard<\/em>, and Beautiful Mistake<\/em>, to name a few. If you want to check out the app, be warned that most content is 18+.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also have 4+ years experience proofreading and digitizing medical documents at Think Research, a Canadian health tech company that provides medical order sets and the software to use them digitally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have also done smaller personal projects for other clients. For example, I was the un\/official copyeditor for my dad’s work blog<\/a> (for posts on March 26, May 16, and Sept 20 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have taken the copyediting, proofreading, indexing, and a few other courses for the Publishing Certificate at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Chang School of Continuing Studies. I haven’t finished the certificate because I got a job.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a MA in Library and Information Science from Simmons College and a BA in English Lit from the University of Toronto.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style Guides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I created the first style guide for Galatea stories, later improved upon by my partner-in-editing, Dana, and subsequent editors at the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have extensive experience with Chicago Manual of Style and APA Style.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experience and Personal Style<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have experience with light, medium, and heavy-handed copyediting, substantive editing, proofreading, and helping non-native English speakers polish their English-language publications. I also love the fiddly work of editing bibliographies. Honestly I should’ve known I woud be a copy editor when I realized my favourite part of writing papers in university was when I got to edit the reference list at the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crux of copyediting is consistency, so in all decisions the client is the authority, and then I maintain that decision throughout the text.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have zero stake in whether you should use Oxford commas or not. My personal feelings are that whenever anyone says “Oxford Comma” I start singing the Vampire Weekend song in my head, but I can never remember all the words so I have to immediately listen to it again. I’m listening to it right now, is what I’m saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I am happy to negotiate with you on rates; what works for you and your project works for me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bibliography I copyedited and indexed Janet Conway et al’s Cross-Border Solidarities\u00a0and Dr Gail Gazelle’s Mindful MD.\u00a0 I copyedited Chapter 10 of Volume 4 in this anthology: “Towards a World History,” by Claudia Jarzebowski.\u00a0 I was the (and then a) copyeditor for Inkitt’s reading app, Galatea. I really only worked on a small selection of what’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-233","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}