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Hope you're having a lovely lead-up to the holidays!
Warm regards,
Kellie
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CA Farlow did an AMAAAAZING job with AQU and I'm thrilled that her work's been recognized. She won the Rainbow Awards' Cate Culpepper Award for Best Paranormal Romance AND got Runner-Up to the Best Lesbian Book! I had such a lovely time editing her work, and I'm so, so proud of her and Desert Palm Press! Check out her work here! Hope you're having a lovely lead-up to the holidays! Warm regards, Kellie
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Soooo...I started my first week at the State of Alaska last week. My first day was Tuesday and since then my life has been a bit of a blur. I did a ton of paperwork, met a lot of really nice people, and read a lot of manuals and procedures. (I’ve also been to a lot of meetings.) So the job itself has been a lot to take in, and I haven’t even really started my training yet! Or my actual job!! It’s crazy. I’m also doing work after my full-time job, as I still have my freelance editing and NYC Midnight judging. I get off work at 4, get back to the house around 5-ish (because of traffic), and start my after work work. I usually take a quick break to scarf down some dinner, and I’m done with the editing/judging by 8:30 or 9pm. After that, I usually settle down on the couch, watch some TV/relax, do my usual nighttime routine, and am in bed by 11pm. I get up at 6:15am to start it all over again. It’s been…tiring. But good overall, I think. I’ll have to figure out how to balance my time a bit better after I’m completely done working, so I can actually do some fantasy writing, but I’m also so tired after that I might not have the brainpower! Maybe I can just brainstorm over the week and then write during the weekend? I’ll figure it out. Anyway, first week DONE! Now…onto the next. Warm regards, Kellie Hello, everyone!
So, Big Changes have been happening in my little life. I've recently moved back to my hometown of Alaska, took the cats with me on the flight and everything (they were not pleased), and am still settling in. It's been crazy these past few weeks because I've been unpacking, job hunting, doing my NYC Midnight judge stuff, finishing up on cataloguing Cirque submissions, doing my DPP client editing, and doing a bunch of Tiger Oak editing. I've been...quite busy. BUT it's been a good kind of busy. An interesting busy. And my life is going to change ONCE AGAIN next Tuesday, which I've been trying to prep for. (But more on that next week!) Mostly, though, it's been filled with editing and for that, I am so grateful. My clients (old and new) are so lovely and I can't thank you guys enough for picking me to help you polish your work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Here's hoping for a wonderful weekend! Warm regards, Kellie Hey guys! So, because of a car accident and some other life stuff, I completely forgot to announce that Sy Itha earned a 2017 Golden Crown Literary Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy for their debut novel The Broken Coil. I'm so happy for them, and it's such an honor to work with such amazing authors. This book was a fun one to edit, and I'm proud to see it so do so well out in the world. While Desert Palm Press books have been nominated before, none have won a Goldie award until now! It's so important for our little press to get such an amazing burst of recognition, and I couldn't be happier for my DPP family. Congrats, Sy, and I look forward to working with you for many years to come! Warm regards, Kellie Hey guys,
Guess what? I obtained a new nonfiction client: Tiger Oak Media! All of my clients are amazing, of course, but this one is pretty cool, because it's contracted work like I have through DPP, but it's for magazines not novels. I get to brush off my AP Stylebook skills from my time as a copyeditor at PSU and put them to good use. It'll be odd transferring back to AP Style from Chicago, since I use Chicago WAY MORE than I use AP, buuuuut I'm ready for the challenge. Basically, I'll be proofreading two monthly magazines, Maple Grove and Southwest Metro. I start THIS TUESDAY, and I'm so hyped. How did I learn about this opportunity? Well a good friend of mine from high school who works for the company reached out because she knew I was looking for work and knew I edit things and offered the connection. So...moral of the story here? Networking works! (Even though we technically connected in high school, we still chat with each other so it counts. It does, honest!) What the heck is proofreading? Well, after the design phase, the work goes into the proofreading phase. Basically, the proofreader is the last line of defense before the work goes out into the world. A proofreader doesn't make any huge sweeping changes because that would entail going backwards (to the writing/developmental phases) instead of forward. A proofreader looks at the whole thing - how it looks on the page, making sure everything is consistent for each page, ensuring it sticks with the house style, etc - but also looks for smaller mistakes that could've happened during the design phase - a misplaced comma, a widow or orphan, a misspelling - so it's an important step. Here are some of the most important things for a proofreader to keep in mind: read the work slowly, only change things that are definitely incorrect, and make sure everything is consistent with the house style. There are a lot of correlating parts to juggle, so a lot of proofreaders say focusing on one thing at a time (say: the headers or the title page) can help. Anyway, I'm excited about this opportunity and look forward to proofreading these two wonderful magazines. I hope you're having a lovely weekend! Warm regards, Kellie |
AuthorMy name is Kellie. I'm an editor and writer. I also like to play games, read, listen to music, and look at the stars. Archives
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