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...
by David Colin Carr | Dec 17, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
December 17, 2013 Much as I appreciate integrity in others, I try to act with integrity myself. So I’m finding myself in a quandary. At our last BAIPA meeting (www.baipa.org – our local network of people involved in all aspects of self-publishing) I offered to write a...
by David Colin Carr | Dec 10, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
December 10, 2013 A writing colleague through my professional network of independent publishers (the PC term for self-publisher) asked if I would do a sample edit of one chapter so she could compare it to the work of other editors she was considering hiring. I have...
by David Colin Carr | Dec 3, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
2 December, 2013 This blog usually arises from the challenge of my work week. But following the move, I ran off for a week’s vacation that had been planned a year earlier. I returned last night and have been so brain dead that I had not a thought about my professional...