Editor Mark

12/03/2024

It's premiere day! My chat with Connie Schultz and Maggie Smith will go live on YouTube today at 4:30 PM ET. Listen to the inspiration behind "Lola and the Troll" and "My Thoughts Have Wings"!

https://youtu.be/NwubNptOHk8?si=fG3Pqh7YYAPFhbyl

01/03/2024

National Grammar Day is March 4 and you know what that means: Time for ACES' 14th annual poetry contest. Give us your best — you always do — at https://forms.gle/vu41YU8TDKKScqW79. Look for the names of the winners in the ACES Weekly News https://aceseditors.org/resources/newsletters and on ACES social media.

13/02/2024

I'm off to Gramercy Books Bexley to pick up Maggie Smith's new picture book "My Thought Having Wings" to complement my copy of Connie Schultz's new picture book, "Lola and the Troll." I'm thrilled to welcome both of them to "That Word Chat," a Zoom-based video chat show for lovers of all things lexical.

You can join us at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Valentine's Day.

We'll ask Schultz and Smith about penning debut picture books, and there is so much more to talk about: Schultz is a Pulitzer-winning columnist and Smith wrote what was called "the official poem of 2016."

You can register here for the Zoom meeting: bit.ly/ThatWordChat

More on Smith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Smith_(poet)
More on Schultz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Schultz
More on the show: https://www.markalleneditorial.com/thatwordchat

09/02/2024

I'm excited to welcome two amazing Ohio writers to a special Valentine's Day edition of That Word Chat. Journalist and novelist Connie Schultz and poet and memoirist Maggie Smith have each written children's books that debut this month. You can join us on Feb. 14, and ask your questions. Details are at bit.ly/ThatWordChat.

27/02/2023

Mark your calendar! Mark and I will chat about the book, the upcoming ACES Evolve conference in Columbus, OH, and more! And there will be Q&A, so bring your questions and I'll bring answers! University of Chicago Press

05/10/2022

Join ACES: The Society for Editing at our next in-person conference, ACES Evolve, The Power of Editing, March 23-25, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio.

This conference's theme, ACES Evolve, The Power of Editing, will focus on learning new ways to communicate your value as an editor, collaborate with peers, exercise your expertise, and invest in your professional development.

Early-Bird Registration will open on October 28.

Learn more here: https://aceseditors.org/conference/aces-2023-columbus

15/09/2022

ACES: The Society for Editing Mourns the Loss of a Valued Member, Mentor, Friend, and Editor- Henry Fuhrmann.

It is with great sadness that we must announce the death of board member and ACES Education Fund President Henry Fuhrmann.

Henry’s family announced that he died Wednesday after a brief and sudden illness. He was 65.

ACES will be committed to honoring Henry by continuing his work advocating for editors as well as diversity and inclusion, and helping student and mid-career editors develop their careers. Our hearts are broken by the loss of not only a great editor, mentor and leader but also a person we befriended, admired and loved.

13/06/2022

Looking forward to this one, featuring two great communicators.

That Word Chat is a Zoom-based chat show with editors, linguists, and other word lovers about all things lexical. Past espisodes appear on YouTube.

08/01/2022

The American Dialect Society, in its 31st annual words-of-the-year vote, selected “insurrection” as the Word of the Year for 2021. While the selection is typically held in person at the society’s a…

06/01/2022

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20/08/2021

I've created a web page of favorite editing-related resources, an outgrowth of my presentation, The Editor’s Bookshelf:

I hope you find it useful.

Thanks to all who contributed; suggestions are welcome.

https://www.markalleneditorial.com/library

Links to some of my favorite editorial resources.

20/10/2020

Today!

I'm really looking forward to having a conversation centered on words, writing, and bookselling with Editor Mark Allen on That Word Chat. Please join us October 20th!