(Kyra is offline until late August)

@kyrafreestar.bsky.social

Editing social science and social science fiction since 2005. Following dragons, dictionaries, and disability justice. Hope is a decision. Find me at Bridge Creek Editing | Academic Editing Circle | Mightier (she/they)

@thetattooedprof.bsky.socialReposted by @kyrafreestar.bsky.social

Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"

@kyrafreestar.bsky.social

For me, the start of any new #editing project is asking questions ... and now twice in the past two days, I've been told that these questions can be helpful in and of themselves.

Always good to be given a new perspective on the work I do!

@kyrafreestar.bsky.social

I had so much fun today doing a real-time Zoom copyedit and Q&A for a #RomancingTheVote winner.

Novel: a mythic fantasy retelling
Author: absolutely lovely
First chapters: beautifully descriptive and engaging

I am in awe of people who write books. I am grateful to get to work alongside them.

@lauraannegilman.bsky.socialReposted by @kyrafreestar.bsky.social

My place of employment (a hospital) just reinstituted their masking-required policy for all in light of a marked increase in viral contagions (a.k.a. Flu A and Covid). Do with this information as you will (but I hope you are paying attention).

@equitableforall.comReposted by @kyrafreestar.bsky.social

Please consider helping my brilliant under-employed friend afford these much-deserved writing opportunities, as she remains under investigation by the Department of Education for inciting a riot, i.e., leading a peaceful student walkout in solidarity with Palestine!🍉
www.gofundme.com/f/help-tajh-...

@kjcharleswriter.comReposted by @kyrafreestar.bsky.social

So Think, Write, Edit, Romance has a lot about prose and a whole section on self-editing. In a moment of wild surmise, I asked the literal Final Boss copyeditor if he'd take a look at it. (When I said I was taking a punt on blurbs...)

And he did, and this is some of what @bcdreyer.social said.

Flyer for Think Write Edit Romance. Quote: “...she offers up here the sort of expert advice on the nuts and bolts of prose, from punctuation to grammar, that makes my copyeditorial heart sing. And if that weren't enough, she does it all engagingly and wittily. I can't imagine a writer, of romance or of anything else, who won't find much that's invaluable in these pages.” --—Benjamin Dreyer, New York Times bestselling author of Dreyer's English and former Random House copy chief. Out 15 Dec in print, e and audio
@mishellbaker.bsky.socialReposted by @kyrafreestar.bsky.social

I spent something like seven years as the virtual "front desk person" for the SFWA Estates Program and I can assure you that having a clear successor to handle rights to your work matters more than you think. Sometimes people who read and love even obscure books grow up to be film producers, etc.

@kjcharleswriter.comReposted by @kyrafreestar.bsky.social

I somehow lost my blog post about English titles in the move, and people keep asking, so here it is: refreshed, revamped, even more irritable. Never get a title in your histrom wrong again!

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