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West Coast Editor print edition 2011 archives
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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
- 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
- BC Branch Chair's 3-point plan
- EAC-BC membership survey reults
- Festival, conference, and seminar listings
- Stay in the know
- Curios: Test your “Volunteer IQ”
- Why volunteer?
- Editing in the age of e-everything (photos from May 27 Welcome Reception)
- etcetera
- 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
- 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
- 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 …
- Help wanted
- Curios
- The bookshelf: Christine Dudgeon
- Conference chat: WCE chats with conference coordinator Marlene Dong
- etcetera plus
- Letters: Gary Lund, West Coast Editor
- Poetic fibs: a contest
- Curios: Canadian men excel at romance
- Drive-by Editing photographs
- Etcetera
To view the newsletter, you require a software program that can read PDF (Portable Document Format) files. If you have a Mac, the built-in Preview application will read PDFs. For Mac and Windows, you may use Adobe Reader, a free software program which can be downloaded from the Adobe site.
Back Issues
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