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Laura and I purchased Copyediting from Manifest in September 2015 with a goal of growing a brand we both loved to offer more to more editors.
The last three years have been incredible. We’ve received an enormous amount of support from our subscribers and the broader editing community. Together, we accomplished a lot, including:...

One challenge that self-employed editors face is convincing potential clients that their fees are worthwhile. Clients have budget limits, and some clients will want to pay unrealistically low fees. But you need to earn enough to support yourself. What...

Benjamin Dreyer’s forthcoming book, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, is part grammar and usage reference and part how-to writing manual, from a copyeditor’s perspective.
(It’s the book I always thought I would write.)
The title of the book is telling. This is no authoritative guide to grammar and usage written by teams of editorial researchers delving into English corpora to tease out the most common errors writers make. No, the content of this book is guided by the...

Most of the parts of speech are fairly easy to grasp—nouns are things that can serve as subjects or objects, verbs are things that usually denote actions or states of being, and so on—but some are a little more slippery.
Take gerunds and participles, for instance. Maybe you know that there are both present and past participles, and maybe you know that some of these words have -ing endings and some don’t, but maybe you’re like a lot of people and can’t quite keep them...