The other day I had an interview at a publishing company to see if I could freelance for them. (It was a fun interview and they really wanted me on board but couldn’t figure out in what capacity: they don’t have an editorial dept.) This company also has an impressive three-floor open-concept art gallery (oooh, …
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Evenings with Bilbo Baggins
I have a weird and wonderful sense of history repeating itself, or something akin to that. If you’ve been reading here for a while, you know my first encounter with Tolkien and The Hobbit was in grade three, when my 23-yr-old teacher Mrs. Henderson, on whom I had a giant crush, took us out to …
Sunshine on a Snowy Day
Isn’t it amazing how quickly a day can change? Probably we pay more attention when it’s a great day that abruptly becomes shitty, but today was not that day for me. I have been fighting a cold and exhaustion and I was certainly in no mood to go back to work so soon after Christmas. …
Boxing Day Blues
Today is Boxing Day, as you know, and I’m still discovering how quickly a festive season can pass, just like that, seemingly in the blink of an eye. It feels very wrong to me. Today my eyes are red-rimmed and tired. It is 6:41 pm and I’ve had a small breakfast, a small lunch, a …
Time to Get Sirius
Since EditQuest is a very important part of this site, and since people come here looking not only to be entertained but to seek out an awesome editor, I have decided to include posts here that those particular people might be interested in, although you may find yourself reading as well. On Wednesdays, now most …
DARE
First, I think this would make more sense if it were edited to ask: What would you do if you knew you could not fail? As for my answer, I’d write a novel and open Biblio. And that’s just for a start… What would you do?
And Another Thing
I would never call this beauty of a desk an editor’s desk. I’d call it a writer’s desk. So hopefully I can be an actual writer at it, a real writer, one who submits fiction to literary journals and actually has it published. How am I supposed to excel at writing and produce anything of …
Forgive the Teddy Bears
I’m sitting beside a large pile of pages that constitute the manuscript I’m working on. I’ve got only the notes and bibliography left to proof (about 60 pages of tiny text), and I should be working on them, but I can’t help but want to be here instead, composing a wonderful post, something creative and …
First Snow
“Come now,” says December to me, her voice soft as snowflakes, crystal eyes spying my raised eyebrow, sharp ears catching my grumble. “Surely it’s only fair? After all, it’s only 5 months of the year…” I grimace, thinking of grit and filthy crusts of old mounds of snow, but forgive this fresh and timely dusting—it …
La Belle Vie, or, The Beautiful Life
Today I had this awesome conversation with a man from Italy, the handsome owner of the hair salon I go to, and we discussed the incredible and significant difference between the North American lifestyle and the European lifestyle. Here, he said, and I agreed, what matters most to us is accumulating stuff and working for …