by David Colin Carr | Jan 27, 2014 | Editing, Uncategorized
27 January, 2014 My commitment to posting this blog weekly has been based on my understanding that to optimize searches, blogs need to appear on the same day(s) each week. Since SEO is not an urgent issue for me, I’ve decided to spare myself the burden of a weekly...
by David Colin Carr | Jan 20, 2014 | Editing, Uncategorized, Writing
20 January 2014 This week I received a career memoir that the writer has been working on for 38 years. I was skeptical when he told me it was the first of five volumes. The autobiography of famous leaders usually fits in one volume, even though autobiography needs a...
by David Colin Carr | Jan 13, 2014 | Book Reviews, Editing, Uncategorized, Writing
13 January, 2014 If you know writers who are unhappily single, be sure to pass this advice along to them. Don’t be blatant about it – you don’t want to embarrass them. Slip it under their door when you know they’re not home. Use someone else’s printer for anonymity....
by David Colin Carr | Jan 7, 2014 | Editing, Uncategorized
6 January, 2014 (If you read my blog last week, you’ll have been reminded that there can never be enough proofreading: “never” was written “ever” – a reversal of my intention. And today I received an email ad “Sale of the year” and under that “2013.” It’s usually the...
by David Colin Carr | Dec 31, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
30 December, 2013 Three years ago, I helped a client through her dissertation. She was so pressed for time that I had to hire three assistants at once to review the footnotes and 120 pages of references so I could be free to concentrate on content and writing. I...
by David Colin Carr | Dec 23, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
23 December, 2013 An old friend happened to call this morning to ask about converting into ebooks some slim volumes he self-published a couple of years ago (in Paris, how romantic, sitting in a café over wine with an Algerian cover designer). He’s been writing poetry...