Editing Otherwise: Fresh Approaches to Stories and Settings

If you’re an academic critical of capitalism, you might hesitate over hiring a developmental editor. Developmental editors, after all, operate in a commercial environment outside of academia. Might such editors flatten your arguments and prose to open your text up to a wider audience? Is there even such a thing as an anticapitalist developmental editor? It’s undeniable that developmental editing is partly about enhancing the commercial potential of a book. Publishers of all k

As a writer, editor, and business owner, it’s important to let you—my friends, colleagues, and (potential) clients—know how I use AI in my editing business. The short answer is that I don’t. Let me clarify that as a policy: I don’t use generative AI tools to generate or assist my work as a developmental editor, consultant, line/copyeditor, or creative writer. Here are some of the reasons why: I’ve experimented with various tools and found them unreliable for copyediting They’