I know that editorial exactitude gets up most people’s noses, but words matter to me. So I was delighted to discover an ally in an argument I have long been having with [ read more ]

The recent unprecedented strike action by staff at Springer Nature (https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/journalists-at-springer-nature-titles-set-to-strike-over-pay.html) highlighted a fundamental truth about an industry squeezed by the twin demands of profit and efficiency. Well, who knew that trying [ read more ]

In the early days of my publishing career, I would fret endlessly about how much editorial intervention was appropriate when copyediting a manuscript. I would feel panic when faced with copy that [ read more ]

I freely admit to being one of those really annoying individuals who will silently correct your grammar as you speak, or sigh inwardly at yet another misused apostrophe on someone’s blog/website/post. I [ read more ]

There comes a time when expressions of concern and explicit warnings are not enough – thus the New York-based business arms of global educational publishers Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning and McGraw [ read more ]

To me, reading is like breathing – I can barely remember a time when I couldn’t read. I read all the ‘Mr Men’ books at 3 years old, and was blessed with [ read more ]