Production editor. Contributing author: THE HERO NEXT DOOR (Crown) and TOTALLY MIDDLE SCHOOL (Delacorte). She/her. 💖💜💙
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Anna Dobbin retweeted
We are pleased to have @diversebooks anthology The Hero Next Door edited by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich on the 23-24 MCBA list.
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I had a baby last week, and she is perfect in every way, but of course my husband and I are completely exhausted. In our delirium we’ve started using names of wines and cocktails to refer to my breastmilk. Current faves:
Momignon Blanc
Boobjolais
Mamaschewitz
Mom Collins
Momtini
On today's episode of Being A Copy Editor:
ALT A screen shot of a Google search. In the search bar are the words, "do tigers sweat?"
(They do.) #copyediting
ALT A screen shot of a Google search that says, "do ducks have toes?"
Anna Dobbin retweeted
⭐️ The 2023 WNDB Internship Grant application is now OPEN! ⭐️
Are you of a diverse background and looking to work in either children's OR adult publishing? We continue to offer $3,000 grants, 12 for children's-focused internships and 12 for adult-focused! bit.ly/igp2023
ALT WNDB graphic reading, "Apply for an Internship Grant: Starting your career in publishing? We want to help! March 1, 2023 to April 30, 2023"
Anna Dobbin retweeted
#CallForSubmissions! Our Spring/Summer 2023 Edition theme is Lost in Translation. We’re looking for stories, poems, and essays about miscommunications and cultural differences.
Submissions close Feb. 28 at 11:59 p.m. CT.
Full guidelines here: capsulestories.submittable.c…
Glad to see that the majority of you think the exclamation point is the way to go. In recent copyedits, I’ve switched commas out for exclamation points a number of times in these situations, so I was starting to worry about it. Thanks, #edibuddies‼️
Poll for my #edibuddies: With the speech tag "shouted" (or a synonym—she yelled, she cried, she exclaimed, etc.), should the dialogue itself end with an exclamation point?
In other words: ["Don't go," she shouted.] Would you change the comma to an exclamation point?
67%Yes
4%No
29%See answers
51 votes • Final resultsPoll for my #edibuddies: With the speech tag "shouted" (or a synonym—she yelled, she cried, she exclaimed, etc.), should the dialogue itself end with an exclamation point?
In other words: ["Don't go," she shouted.] Would you change the comma to an exclamation point?
67%Yes
4%No
29%See answers
51 votes • Final resultsI’m super excited and honored to share that @CapsuleStories has nominated my essay “Unexpecting” for a Pushcart Prize! What an *unexpected* (heh) delight!!!
Announcing our 2022 #PushcartPrize noms! 🎉
🖋️ “To Lose” by Veronica Nation
🖋️ “Suncatcher” by Hantian Zhang
🖋️ “Cradled” by Eve Croskery
🖋️ “The Light and the Lake” by Dana Getka
🖋️ “Dear Tree Committee” by Jennifer Clark
🖋️ “Unexpecting” by @akdobbin
capsulestories.com/2022-push…
Anna Dobbin retweeted
Announcing our 2022 #PushcartPrize noms! 🎉
🖋️ “To Lose” by Veronica Nation
🖋️ “Suncatcher” by Hantian Zhang
🖋️ “Cradled” by Eve Croskery
🖋️ “The Light and the Lake” by Dana Getka
🖋️ “Dear Tree Committee” by Jennifer Clark
🖋️ “Unexpecting” by @akdobbin
capsulestories.com/2022-push…
Anna Dobbin retweeted
@akdobbin’s #essay “Unexpecting” is published in Capsule Stories Winter 2022 Edition: Hibernation, now available in paperback and ebook. Buy your copy here: capsulestories.com/winter-20…
Anna Dobbin retweeted
Today’s #CapsuleCollective highlight: @akdobbin is an author and freelance copy editor, proofreader, and conscious language specialist. Her writing has appeared in the middle grade anthologies The Hero Next Door and Totally Middle School.
ALT The book Capsule Stories Winter 2022 Edition held in front of an evergreen bush
Anna Dobbin retweeted
New blog post! As we deal with the wreckage of #RoeVWade and escalating anti-trans legislation, it's vital to talk/write about #abortion and #ReproductiveJustice in ways that are inclusive of #trans, #nonbinary, and #intersex folks. Get the full practices: radicalcopyeditor.com/2023/0…
I #AmEditing and just caught a usage of “stalagmite” that should be “stalactite,” which I know the difference between only from watching @BillNye the Science Guy as a child.
Welp, I guess I can retire now. These acknowledgments in a book I copyedited are just too much for my lil heart to take 🥹🥹🥹 #WinJar
ALT A paragraph in a book’s acknowledgments that reads: “Anna Dobbin, for saving me from my tenuous grip on timelines, among other things, and for being just so dang elegant in how she fixed some of my awkward sentences that it made my writerly heart sing. Anything that is still wonky in this novel is because I didn’t fix it, not because Anna didn’t catch it, I promise you.”
Anna Dobbin retweeted
Please stop giving villains in books messy teeth or skin conditions or scars or disabilities. And don’t make them short and/or fat either. It equates disability and/or fatness with evil. And publishers should be questioning + addressing these things in the editing process.
The Winter 2022 edition of @CapsuleStories has arrived!!! Check out the tweet below to learn more, including how to buy a copy!
The theme, Hibernation, prompted me to write a nonfiction piece about a recent difficult experience, and the words poured out. (1/3)
❄️ Capsule Stories Winter 2022 Edition: Hibernation is here! ❄️
Featuring poetry and prose, Capsule Stories Winter 2022 Edition explores the theme Hibernation. These stories and poems ruminate on hunkering down for the winter and resting.
Available here: capsulestories.com/winter-20…
ALT Capsule Stories Winter 2022 Edition on a green blanket
I didn’t realize how much I still needed to process my experience emotionally until I broke down while sitting in front of my laptop, typing my story. At that point, whether my piece got accepted felt secondary to the value of writing it. (2/3)
But then @CarolinaMarie_V saw something in my work worthy of publishing, and I’m so grateful for that. I’m proud of the piece because I love it, and I’m nervous because it’s pretty vulnerable, and I hope it resonates with a reader or two out there. (3/3)