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Kristy Phillips

The Bitch

This post is the story of my logo. My brand. She began in a 1967 high school art class and has been with me since 1993. In 2021, I took a...

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A Word About Proofreading

Editing is not the same as proofreading. They are different skills used by different people at different stages of book production. While...

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What Editors Are Not

I know I’ve covered some of this in other posts. But let me repeat here, if only for my own sanity: Editors are not proofreaders. Editors...

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Not as Cool as the Gang Unit

A friend of mine said to me recently, “Sometimes I think about becoming an editor. I often spot typos in books.” I cringed on the inside....

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How Not to Talk to Editors

This is going to be a vent session, but I hope you get something useful out of it. Let me start by saying that I've had many, many...

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My Edits Enclosed

In the olden days at the beige insurance company, we had a manager who reviewed all our copy before it was published or sent to design....

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The Secret Life of Editors

I prefer telling people that I'm an editor rather than a writer. Back when I identified as a writer, the conversation always went...

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Word Girl

I know it's a cliche, but that's what my corporate graphic design coworkers called me, back in the days when we worked together in an...