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Editors British Columbia: West Coast Editor 2008
You may view or download any issue of West Coast Editor from 2008. Each is available as a PDF file. Click the title to view it in your web browser, or right-click (Windows) or ctrl-click (Mac) and choose "download" or "save" to save a copy on your computer.
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Winter 2008: Holiday Gift Guide
- Framing a memory for my hard-to-buy-for wife, by Wael Elazab
- Pay it forward, by Benjamin Franklin and Cheryl Hannah
- Holiday gifts for your eco-folk friends, by Jennifer Getsinger
- Holiday gifts for the literary cat, by Jennifer Getsinger
- A tribute book for my parents on the anniversary of their arrival in Canada, by Joanna Gould
- Fencing lessons for my XBox-obsessed nephew, by Cheryl Hannah
- Retro knitting-needle shells for my sister-in-law, the professional knitter, by Cheryl Hannah
- A Christmas Bonus, by Hugh Macdonald
- A Christmas gift for the two young men on the 601 bus, by Hugh Macdonald
- The gift of art, by Bette Shippam
- "stuff for socks"
- "stuff for socks II"
October 2008: Building Your Portfolio
- Building Your Portfolio, Kelly Parry interview
- Portfolio Woes, by Hugh Macdonald
September 2008: The Queen's English
- The Lost Art of Sentence Diagramming
- English: Lingua Franca in Peril, by Hugh Macdonald
- The Queen's English, Eh? by Shelly Windover
- What's the State of the Queen's English?
May 2008: Editing Fiction
- Editing the Novel, by Patricia Anderson
- Editing the Short Story, by Mary Schendlinger
- On Editing Poetry, by Hugh Macdonald
April 2008: The Business of Editing
- Systematize Your Business, by Naomi Pauls
- How to Cost an Editing Job, by Peter Moskos
- Amy and Associates, by Peter Moskos
- Serial Comma Vote: Final Results and Commentaries
March 2008: The Great Debates
- Serial Comma Vote: The Results
- Who Cares about Whom?, by Frances Peck
- The Tale of the Dastardly Dash, by Hugh Macdonald
- Clash of the Punctuation Titans
February 2008: The Book is Dead
- Alinguisity: The Real Threat, by Hugh Macdonald
- Long Live the Book, by Jeanne Ainslie
- It's Dead!
- It's Alive!
January 2008: The Issue of Style
- Plethora: Canary in the Mine Shaft, by Hugh Macdonald
- Where the ’ell is the Aitch? by Barbara K Adamski
- Miss Austen’s Makeover, by Cheryl Hannah and Fiona Lehn
- Style Guide and Dictionary
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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