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Review – Women’s Weird 2, ed. by Melissa Edmundson
So it’s nearly Hallowe’en, and although I won’t be handing out treats to the local trick-or-treaters* I’m always up for a spooky book around this season. In fact, I save spooky books for this time of year, when the nights and the weather start to close in. This book...
How much do you know about journaling?
The answer to this is – almost certainly more than you think. If you’ve ever written in a diary – you’ve written a journal. If you’ve ever written down an account of a day or an event, either for yourself or someone else – that was a journal entry. Even a dated to-do...
Academic editing – some potential pitfalls
Although fiction editing is my first love, a lot of my editing work these days comes from students and academics. This kind of happened by accident – one recommendation from an old university contact led to a small circle of clients, many of whom recommended me to...