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Heather Martin

@heather-martin.com
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Freelance editor • heather-martin.com Inveterate reader, coder, climber, shutterbug, tinkerer & dork Pronouns: she/her • elle Location: Tiohtià:ke • Mooniyang • Montreal Languages: English • French

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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Au Québec | Les ventes de livres à leur plus haut niveau depuis 2010
Le secteur littéraire est florissant au Québec, si bien que les ventes de livres neufs ont atteint l’an dernier leur plus haut niveau depuis 2010, selon les données dévoilées jeudi dans l’enquête annu...
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 19/07/2026
A publishing industry inside joke from 1928. If you've ever read a book from Alfred A. Knopf, you will be familiar with their little essays about typeface. This is from Meaning No Offence, by John Riddell, from The John Day Company (a competitor, as you might guess).
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 14/07/2026
Nice, thanks for the recommendation!
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 14/07/2026
It’s time for another roundup of recent reads I've enjoyed. It’s been a good summer so far. I hope the streak continues! What have you been reading lately? #AmReading 💬📚💙
A collage of book covers for the following titles:
Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson,
You’ve Changed by Ian Williams,
The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya,
This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum,
How to Survive a Bear Attack by Claire Cameron,
Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt,
The Book Tour by Emily Ohanjanians, and
Regenesis by George Monbiot.
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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
How To Get Out is finally out. It's Trans Rescue's distilled knowledge and advice for trans people and others wishing to escape the UK or USA. This is my first book, and has consumed a lot of my time since last November. I hope people find it of use. Get it here: transrescue.org/how-to-get-out
Cover of the Trans Rescue guide How To Get Out: Practical Information to Help You Survive by Jenny List and Anne Ogborn. The cover features bold typography, flames, and an illustration of Donald Trump holding a U.S. flag.
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Literati Bookstore @literatibookstore.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Great (Lakes) Reads! literatibookstore.com/list/great-l...
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
So happy to be writing for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social again! Especially on such an important topic. What Montreal’s police scandal reveals about systemic racism in Quebec : ricochet.media/justice/poli...
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What Montreal's police scandal reveals about systemic racism in Quebec
Allegations that officers ripped locs from Black men to keep as ‘trophies’ have stunned the public. But those who have lived under aggressive policing say the accusations reveal a reality they've been...
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 04/07/2026
« Une loi qui exclut des femmes en raison de leur apparence ne saurait être qualifiée de féministe! Elle repose plutôt sur une logique coloniale, raciste et paternaliste où l’État prétend savoir ce qui est bon pour elles tout en refusant de les consulter et de les écouter. »
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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Does anyone else just put a book down after something very awful or beautiful happens because you want to just let the moment rest, because barreling on would seem somehow profane? 📖
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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
happy summer solstice to those who celebrate <3
A group of witches are holding hands and looking up at the sky while performing a summer solstice ritual. Pagans are fantastic because they worship nature, and considering that many religions copied them or based their silly rituals on Pagan practices, I think that's beautiful.
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Indigenous Editors Association @indigeditors.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
On National Indigenous Peoples Day, we honour the strength of First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities and the editors who carry our stories with respect and care. We celebrate Indigenous voices and support Indigenous-led storytelling. #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
the brady bunch relies upon the early deaths of two parents. beneath your frivolous merriment there lies a foundation of bones
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 19/06/2026
I’ve fallen behind on sharing recent reads that I’ve particularly enjoyed, so here’s a quick update: Foster by Claire Keegan Wapke), edited by Michel Jean (English transl. available) Life Hacks for a Little Alien) by Alice Franklin #BookSky #AmReading
Covers of Foster by Claire Keegan; Wapke, edited by Michel Jean; and Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice Franklin
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 18/06/2026
« L’intégration ne peut reposer uniquement sur les efforts individuels : elle engage une responsabilité collective, celle du « nous », à créer un espace réellement inclusif permettant à chaque concitoyen de trouver sa place sans renoncer à ce qu’il est. »
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 16/06/2026
Editors Canada has created an excellent new resource for editors and writers on how to use language consciously and with respect. You can find it at: editors.ca/publications... #WritingCommunity #EditingCommunity
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Editing with Respect: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 2026 - Editors Canada
This handbook guides readers through EDI in writing, and includes considerations and practices for editing inclusively and sensitively.
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 12/06/2026
Got in a gorgeous #StetRide before this afternoon’s rain. 🙌 #StetWalk
The shiny waters of the St. Lawrence with a sky full of backlit clouds. Looking up into a canopy of leaves, with glimpses of blue skies and clouds. In the foreground, my bike leans against a park lounge chair that I’m sitting in. In the back ground a bike path and the shoreline of the St. Lawrence.
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 11/06/2026
Here's the podcast episode for those who are interested: youtu.be/9t-5lQ2mzuw?...
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How Many Words Do You ACTUALLY Know?
YouTube video by The Rest Is Science
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 11/06/2026
I think this is something my #edibuddies will enjoy. This quiz is meant to estimate the size of your English vocabulary: vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app I came across it on a recent episode of The Rest Is Science & am chuffed to have done quite well.
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VocabOwl - Scientific Word Count
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 05/06/2026
Seeing a ton of folks wondering where to get audiobooks these days 👀 We are an audiobook company that share profits with 4,000+ indie bookshops across the globe. Every time you buy an audiobook with us—there are over 600,000 to choose from—your indie benefits. (Which we think is pretty cool.)
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 28/05/2026
Oh, no! I've turned the word "albeit" over in my head too many times and hit semantic satiation. I'm going to flag this sentence and come back to it later. #AmEditing
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 21/05/2026
TIL that one can buy bread in a can. Who knew? (Answer: a lot of people.) #AmEditing
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What Exactly Is Canned Brown Bread — And How New Englanders Eat It - Tasting Table
Steamed brown bread with molasses was a New England tradition for hundreds of years, and in the 20th century, it ended up in a preservation-friendly can.
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PWHL @thepwhl.com · 21/05/2026
POUR LA VICTOIRE ‼️ THE MONTRÉAL VICTOIRE ARE THE 2026 PWHL WALTER CUP CHAMPIONS! LA VICTOIRE DE MONTRÉAL SONT LES CHAMPIONNES DE LA COUPE WALTER 2026 DE LA LPHF!
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Nikolas Kozloff @nikolaskozloff.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
#Irony: #book about the effects of #AI on #truth contains fake AI quotes www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b... I support human-based #writing nkozphoto.com/index.php/20... #books #journalism #humanity #consciousness #psychology #publishing #nonfiction #fiction #literature
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 16/05/2026
Finished reading Evenings & Weekends by Oisín McKenna this week and loved it. It has such a tactile sense of place and time plus characters whose wholeness stretched beyond the bounds of the story for me. 💙📚🖋️
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Evenings & Weekends by Oisín McKenna
Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette partie...
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 16/05/2026
It's been a full week. Finished a BIG edit and the client is happy. Dismantled the back deck so that foundation work can begin. And went on a lovely stet walk with new friends, one human and one canine! Now for a weekend of pleasure reading. 📚 #AmEditing #AmDemolishingThings #AmWalking #AmReading
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Alexa Heinrich's Accessible Social is a free resource for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, everyday social media users, and anyone who wants to learn how to make their content accessible for people with disabilities. www.accessible-social.com
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Accessible Social
Accessible Social is a free resource and education hub that helps marketers and content creators learn about accessibility and how it relates to social media.
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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Destany Pete researched an Indigenous chokecherry recipe and achieved promising “in vitro” results on cancer cells. Her science project gained international recognition for combining traditional knowledge with modern laboratory experimentation.
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 08/05/2026
I mean, it’s delightfully ridiculous. Plus Betty White! 🙌
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 08/05/2026
Lake Placid! 🐊 Such a ridiculous movie. Alligator is my preferred crocodilian film fare. boxd.it/1fkm 😁
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Alligator (1980)
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampa...
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 06/05/2026
Today's #StetWalk was climbing at the gym. Since that isn't very photogenic, here are some pics from Monday's stet walk.
A bed of white trilliums on the forest floor.Close-up of pink magnolia blooms in our neighbour's tree.
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alainsenechal.bsky.social @alainsenechal.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
AS : Le principal impact des lois laïques de la #CAQ est de créer des situations de misogynie discriminatoires institutionnalisées par l’état. Un retour en arrière honteux. Et à la #CAQ, ont ouvre toutes les communications par « Fier de … » Loin d’être fier, j’ai honte, tellement honte .
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Rima does a great job showing how utterly ridiculous Bill 94 is. « Dans quelle situation absurde sera plongée une bénévole qui est aussi enseignante à l’école de son enfant bénéficiant d’une clause de droits acquis comme employée, mais pas comme bénévole ? » www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...
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La loi qui renforce l’absurdité
La loi 94 devait renforcer la laïcité dans le réseau de l’éducation. Dans les faits, elle y renforce l’absurdité et les préjugés.
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 02/05/2026
Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only The Good Place Severance Pluribus Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Schitt's Creek Sort Of North of North Ghosts (UK) Twin Peaks Elementary The Muppet Show Hacks Carnivale Pose The Wire Caveat: I have not seen every season/episode of every show
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Carolina VonKampen 📚 Freelance Editor @carolinavonkampen.com · 02/05/2026
Neat visualization of the Big 5 publishers! almossawi.com/big-five-pub... #publishing #books #booksky #publishers #amediting #editorsky #writersky
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The Big Five US Trade Book Publishers
With all the imprints out there, it's sometimes difficult to know which imprint belongs to which of the big five publishers.
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Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
If you’re...wondering why everything feels harder than it used to…it’s not in your head. The industry has genuinely shifted, and the advice still circulating online hasn’t caught up to what’s actually happening. Some insights #Writers on #Submission: vickyweberbooks.substack.com/p/what-nobod...
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What Nobody’s Telling Querying Writers About What’s Happening to Publishing Right Now
I’ve started this post four times.
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 01/05/2026
Today's #StetWalk ☀️
A huge weeping willow with bright yellow-green leaves on the shores of a pond on a sunny afternoon
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A whooping cough outbreak in an elementary school down the road. Meanwhile I finally got around to reading Candle In the Dark and only a few pages in, you get to its eerily prescient passage. Sigh.
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance"
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Montreal artist Laurence Petit, aka La fée des trottoirs just visited Saint-Henri and left a tiny work of sidewalk art behind. ❤️
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Erin Brenner (she/her) @ebrenner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Parallelism: Editors obsess over it, writers seem to barely notice it. But when it's off, readers feel it. This post covers when to use it—and when breaking the pattern makes your writing stronger. zurl.co/3kg84 #WritingTips #GrammarTips #AmEditing
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Ending the Tug of War Over Parallelism - Right Touch Editing
Parallelism is something copyeditors and writers often disagree about. With a little research and a lesson in grammar, we can end this age-old debate.
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 30/04/2026
Well, I'm missing the sunny spring weather we've had the last while. But an overcast day with a strong cup of tea can be perfect for some deep focus, so I'm making the best of it. #AmEditing #LunchTime
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Chris Hurl @churlishness.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
How are activists creatively engaging with data in challenging authoritarianism? Our book launch webinar, happening tomorrow, 1:30pm (EDT), will feature activists doing some great work on this. Check it out!
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 22/04/2026
Finished reading And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliot on the weekend, and it was so good, so unsettling, and so moving! Highly recommended! 💙📚🖋️📚🩸 app.thestorygraph.com/books/80d321...
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And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she’s just given birth to a beautif...
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 19/04/2026
“The therapeutic use of books, known as bibliotherapy, is supported by clinical guidelines. The Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments recommends books as a supportive, second-line treatment for certain mild to moderate emotional difficulties.” 💙📚💬 theconversation.com/is-reading-y...
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Is reading your favourite hobby? A new era of book clubs is reshaping how we read
From #BookTok picks to silent reading meetups, a new generation of readers is transforming how we think about books, community and mental health.
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 17/04/2026
Toad close-up 😁
Close-up of a dark brown toad in a pond
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 17/04/2026
The toads are singing in my parents’ pond, and the tadpoles will be hatching in about 3 weeks. Spring has arrived! 🙌 #SignsOfSpring
A dark brown toad sits in a pond with its head above the water. Strings of tiny round black toad eggs float on the surface of the pond.
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 13/04/2026
I love editing to cello too. Here's an album that I've brought back into heavy rotation lately: www.mayabeiser.com/music/maya-b... Hope you enjoy it!
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Maya Beiser | Music | Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C
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Peggy Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
So Kindle is removing tech support from its device, pretty much requiring people to buy new ones, and introducing ads. This is why we sell our ReBound press books on Kobo. Also for ideological reasons: Amazon has been terribly destructive too booksellers and publishers, and I refuse to support it.
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Heather Martin @heather-martin.com · 06/04/2026
So far I’m really enjoying Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris. Still deciding how I feel about stories being classified as historical fiction when they’re set during my lifetime. I guess I’m historical now? 😅 ⏳📚💙📚🖋️
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Black Butterflies: A novel by Priscilla Morris
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION. A timeless story of strife and hope set during th...
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
'Do the names we give to our feelings make certain feelings possible?' A beautiful article 🧡 #writers #amwriting #writingcommunity lithub.com/lisa-lee-on-...
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Lisa Lee on Translating an Emotion
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In her 2017 novel The Idiot, Elif Batuman discusses the long-running controversy in linguistics over the so-called Sapir-W…
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