West Coast Editor is available in Portable Document Format (PDF) and is sent by email monthly to members. To view the journal, you require Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free software program which can be downloaded from the Adobe site.

The following issues are available for download from the year 2000:

December 2000

• Getting government work
• Editing a Giller prize-worthy novel
• Advice from a literary agent

November 2000:

• The most effective ways to search the Internet
• A survey of editing courses in the Lower Mainland
• An introduction to BC's new branch coordinator, Jean Lawrence

October 2000

• An overview of the workshops we're offering this fall
• A list of discounted reference books available through the BC branch
• Encouraging words about the fast growth (but not necessarily the profitability) of BC's book publishers

September 2000:

• Some helpful advice about photocopying costs
• Creating clear hyperlinks on your webcsite

June 2000

• E-books and the future of electronic publishing
• Editing for an international audience
• The newly published second edition of the EAC style guide, Editing Canadian English
• Hints for the technical editor

May 2000:

• Organizing a substantive edit
• Grammar points on defining quantities
• Winners of the 1999 BC Book Prizes
• 2000 -- 2001 BC executive

April 2000

• Evaluating submissions for a national first novel contest
• An updated vocabulary of web lingo
• Freedom of expression
• Editing in a rural community

March 2000:

• A visit with Thetis Island editor Sharon Bell
• Publishing audiobooks
• Our library display to promote editing

February 2000

• Evidence of the continual erosion of our language skills
• George Orwell's Six Rules of Good Writing
• Eliminating unnecessary prepositional phrases

January 2000:

• Networking dos and don'ts
• Local editing rates
• A review of NoteTab Pro, a text editor that reportedly outperforms Microsoft Word 2000

The following issues are also available for download from this site:

West Coast Editor 1999