Publishing Manager, @themhra.bsky.social
Co-editor of the MHRA Style Guide
Posting about scholarly publishing • History and future of the book • Book design, typography, typesetting 📚
Also work on the history of witchcraft & magic 🌒
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Simon Davies
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Writing my book
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It goes without saying that if I knew a copy-editor had used ‘AI’ I would never hire them again, ever.
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Visitor's guide to Brighton from 1800: 'one of the most desirable summer and winter residences in the kingdom'
And best mutton in the universe, apparently.
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Authors, if you're not sure how to do something in your MS, *please* just ask your editor/production editor. So many of the problems (and hence delays) at the editing stage of academic books come from authors charging ahead with a workaround for something they don't know how to do (in Word).
Complaint about 'stupid' scholarly titles that don't describe a work's contents, from a 1966 MLR review of the latest vol. of the Annual Bibliography of Eng Lang & Lit.
Can't say I disagree, and it hasn't gone away 🙃
Narrative of a maritime disaster from 1840, bound in timbers from the wreck -- feels like this should be in a museum!
(via @wisdompedlars.bsky.social)
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Reposting for weekday people. Grateful for any thoughts!
Any #earlymodern ists familiar with the term 'the village ring'? I assume it means village green but can't find confirmation.
Used in an 18th-C context.
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‘Fear is my name, and I am Death’s messenger and the reminder of Death; and I have come before him to warn you of his coming.’
Killer description of Hell in this!
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So Adobe has finally found a way to poison InDesign, one of their best bits of software, with 'AI' shite. It's a typesetting program, not a writing program. Anyone doing writing in InDesign is nuts. What a waste of everybody's time (and a waste of our absurdly inflated subscription money)
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"Using AI doesn’t make you less of an editor. It forces you to be more intentional about what editing actually is,” says guest blogger Bill Brenner. #AI is changing editing workflows, but Bill argues that the profession’s real value hasn’t disappeared. Read his take: zurl.co/YWJ6d .
#AmEditing
