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May 2012 WCE Volunteer Edition (PDF, 1.7 MB)

• Contributors to this issue share little-known facts about their lives
• Member new: Many highlights from UVic seminar, from Erin Potter; Two book-related videos, from Frank Karabotsos
• Word play: Why I’m cautious about using words with “pep,” by Jennifer S. Getsinger
• Language: Do you speak Scots? A WCE quiz
• Conference notes, by Christine LeBlanc and Gael Spivak
• Volunteer with EAC-BC: Why do you volunteer?
• Volunteer with EAC-BC: PR chair: “There’s a huge client base for our members out there,” by Jessica Klassen
• Volunteer with EAC-BC: The elections section 

Features

• Local tourist: Adventures at the Table (not a story about dining), by Frances Peck
• The bookshelf, by Jessica Klassen

Etcetera

• May 16: EAC-BC new members welcome session
• May 16: EAC-BC elections/wine and cheese reception
• June 1–3: EAC national conference 2012
• Now you know: Genghis Khan wins prize
• Now you know: WCE finds new home, new format on Internet
• New EAC-BC members
• Answers: “Do you speak Scots?” quiz (from page 7)
• Drive-by Editing
• Why the world needs editors, by Hugh Macdonald

WCE Bugle April 2012 (PDF, 691 KB)

March 2012 Drive-by Editing Issue (PDF, 1.6 MB)

• Contributors to this issue share their thoughts on typos, punctuation, Nancy Drew, C.S. Lewis, and posses of cheeky cats
• Member news: David Harrison takes on new challenge; English: not for the faint-hearted
• What does Chicago say? A WCE quiz
• Conference notes, by Christine LeBlanc and Gael Spivak

Features

• Drive-by Editing photos, by Cheryl Hannah, Frank Karabotsos, Sharon McInnis, Erin Potter, Karen Sawatsky, and Ruth Wilson
• The bookshelf, by Dania Sheldon

Etcetera listings

• March 17: Structural + stylistic = substantive editing
• March 21: New members welcome session
• March 21: Style sheets with substance!
• March 23–24: Campbell River writers’ festival
• March 24: Advanced proofreading
• April 18: EAC certification
• April 21: Picture research
• May 2–4: TD national reading summit
• May 5: Stylistic editing
• May 16: New members welcome session     
• May 16: EAC-BC elections and cocktail party
• June 1–3: EAC national conference 2012
• New members

February 2012 "The Language Issue" (PDF, 1 MB)

Contents

• Contributors to this issue share some serial-comma and book-related thoughts
• Terms of venery: a WCE quiz
• Elements of Style is an opera?
• Word nerds unite
• Camel case contretemps; End of the serial comma?
• Word art

Features

• The ups and downs of capitalization, by Frances Peck
• The bookshelf, by Cheryl Hannah

Etcetera listings

WCE Bugle January 2012 (PDF, 448 KB)

Holiday Gift Guide 2011 (PDF, 2.2 MB)

Contents

• Contributors share memories of their favourite Christmas traditions
• Curios: DIY found-object bracelet project
• The bookshelf: mini book-reviews
• WCE Christmas Carol: “O Editor”
• The WCE funnies

Features

• The pleasure of gift giving, by Carey Ditmars
• My mother hates presents, by Tina Robinson
• The gift of running, by Eva van Emden
• A gift for an author, by Cheryl Hannah
• Aunt Broccoli’s green tips for the eco-crowd: how to grow your own sustained yield Christmas tree farm on a Vancouver city lot, by Jennifer S. Getsinger
• A very fine cat indeed, by Hugh Macdonald
• Urban Girl and the hostess gift
• Urban Bookworm and the hostess gift
• Urban Girl gets ready
• Urban Girl gets comfortable
• WCE kids’ lit picks: How to Train your Dragon

Etcetera listings

• November 16: New members welcome session
• November 16: Doing business with the government
• December 10: EAC-BC Christmas party
• January 18: Tweeting your way to job leads
• January 21: Eight-step editing

October 2011 "The Secret Lives of Editors" (PDF, 1.6 MB)

• Curios: Bad writing takes the prize
• Curios: Who’s who?
• Word art for editors
• The many (not so secret) lives of David, by Carol Tulpar
• Who’s who? (answers and sources)
• Lib Alcock: Secret life: writer and cartoonist, a WCE interview
• Letters: Scholarship recipient sends thanks; “What’s a meta for?”    
• etcetera 

September 2011 "The West Coast Editor Bugle" (PDF, 414 KB)

• BC Branch Chair's 3-point plan
• EAC-BC membership survey reults
• Festival, conference, and seminar listings
• Stay in the know

June 2011 "Stand Out from the Crowd. Become a Volunteer" (PDF, 1 MB)

• Curios: Test your “Volunteer IQ”
• Why volunteer?
• Editing in the age of e-everything (photos from May 27 Welcome Reception)
• etcetera

May 2011 "WCE Bugle" (PDF, 222 KB)

• Vancouver declares e-edited state of emergency
• Limited seats available in pre-conference seminars
• Editors to walk the red carpet at May 27th Welcome Reception
• Annual Book Swap and BC branch elections

April 2011 "Web Marketing" (PDF, 1.9 MB)

• EAC conference menu
• West Coast Editor web-marketing survey: the results are in
• The brave new world of e-marketing your editing business
• Priscilla P. Perfect and the case of the roving reporter
• Caveat editor: beware the e-plagiarist
• Poetic fibs contest winner
• etcetera

March 2011 “Conference 2011” Issue (PDF, 1.6 MB)

• Conference details
• Curios
• Editors in the age of e-everything: an endangered species?  by Helen Polychronakos
• etcetera
• plus: “self-serving sources” event review;  “the state of the publishing industry”; and more …

February 2011 Etcetera Plus (PDF, 645 KB)

• Help wanted
• Curios
• The bookshelf: Christine Dudgeon
• Conference chat: WCE chats with conference coordinator Marlene Dong
• etcetera plus

Jan 2011 Drive by Editing (PDF, 1.6 MB)

• Letters: Gary Lund, West Coast Editor
• Poetic fibs: a contest
• Curios: Canadian men excel at romance
• Drive-by Editing photographs
• Etcetera

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Back Issues

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• West Coast Editor 2010
• West Coast Editor 2009
• EAC British Columbia - West Coast Editor 2008
• EAC British Columbia - West Coast Editor 2007
• EAC British Columbia - West Coast Editor 2006
• EAC British Columbia - West Coast Editor 2005
• EAC British Columbia - West Coast Editor 2004
• EAC British Columbia - West Coast Editor 2003
• EAC British Columbia - West Coast Editor 2002
• EAC British Columbia - West Coast Editor 2001