Editor and writer. 📝 Biblio.cine.phile. 📖📽 Neurodivergent. 🧠 She/her. 🏳️🌈
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Hi, everyone!
I’m often asked what I edit to the point where making a post about it seemed like a good idea. 😄
Please reach out via my website (link in bio) with any questions, to book a discovery call, or to request a sample edit. 💻
As a big fan of Bright Star, I loved this excerpt! - John Keats on Film: Considering Jane Campion’s Exquisitely Rendered Bright Star lithub.com/john-keats-on-fil… via @lithub
Wow.
1. @Moms4Liberty decided that several classic children's picture books are pornography, including Maurice Sendak's In The Night Kitchen.
A Florida school district agreed to ADD CLOTHING to the illustrations
Follow along for the full saga, including before and after pics
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Calling all writers and reviewers ✏️
We have a heartening #OnWritingandFailure @StephenMarche bundle for keen reviewers.
Repost and contact [email protected] to register your interest and remember, 'relish the rejection' 🌧️
#booktwitter #WritingCommunity #bookreview
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i hope this doesn't backfire and make more people read it, especially if a bookstore offered it at a discounted price of only $15. that would be so crazy
kingsbookstore.ca/TheHateUGi…
Nova Scotia’s Department of Education says it has dropped the American young adult novel, The Hate U Give, from its Grade 8 curriculums after a handful of complaints about profanity.
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Today and every day I am so, so grateful to librarians whose work is absolutely essential to making art and information available to all--even amid absurdly difficult working conditions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Steampunk style 'book dress' by French designer Sylvie Facon #WomensArt
Meaghan Steeves📚 | Choice Words Editing retweeted
i am begging ON MY KNEES for people to stop using alt text, closed captions, tone indicators, etc. to make jokes or references rather than for their intended purpose. these are accessibility tools for disabled people, not for making undertale jokes.
Happy Monday, folks! ✨
Should this note say double check or double-check? *Hint: check your dictionary.*
And you never know what you don’t know—I was an adult before I registered that Spider-Man includes a hyphen!
In Microsoft Word, hit ctrl+f to search for variations of spellings, too.
So, for example, if you have a character named Meaghan, try searching for different ways it’s spelled in case you missed a keystroke during a particularly fevered writing session. I’ve seen Megan, Meagan, Meghan, and more!
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#Writer #WritingTip #Freelance #Editor #Copyediting
Meaghan Steeves📚 | Choice Words Editing retweeted
twitter might betray you but your local indie bookstore never will
We love to see it!! 🥳
Jillian and @marikotamaki on the cover of @PublishersWkly for their much much anticipated ROAMING! @PWComicsWorld
Meaghan Steeves📚 | Choice Words Editing retweeted
Dolly Parton has never been in a cage fight, but she *has* gifted over 200 million books to children through her Imagination Library. In a world full of Zuckerbergs and Musks, be a Dolly.