Editors' Association of Canada

EAC-BC Newsletter - West Coast Editor

West Coast Editor is the online newsletter of the Editors’ Association of Canada, BC Branch (EAC-BC). Content reflects the professional and personal interests of branch members: industry-related articles; listings of industry-related events; event reviews; book and restaurant reviews; recreational pastimes; Christmas- and holiday-gift ideas; language-themed quizzes and curiosities; and more.  Visit the site.

Print Archives

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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