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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Come visit us at Small Press Fest in surprisingly non-rainy Victoria BC! Nab an early copy of @iangoodale.bsky.social 's brand new novel and all!

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Everyone should watch this because Cher show performances are always a good time But #copyeditors should watch this for #6 #amediting YouTube youtube.com/shorts/4eTpJ...

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The Cher Show iconic moments #shorts #song #music

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

16 years into my freelance editing career, and yet it's still so satisfying to change straight apostrophes to curly ones. #amediting

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The alt suggestions on @merriam-webster.com for "great-grandmother" has got me giggling. The beginnings of a Lewis Carroll–inspired poem?? #amediting

Return for 'great-grandmother' search on Merriam Webster online, including "great gray owls" and "great grosses"

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The irony of everyone doing "non AI" punctuation, and ushering in even faster a world where casual writers rely on AI for any semblance of correctness. Every day feels like going to war for the em dash with the writers i work with. I guess now add the hyphen??

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Is there anything harder as a copyeditor than deleting punctuation around Arabic script that's included within an English sentence? It's like a bloody videogame! #amediting

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sometimes the slop state of the internet makes for delightful outcomes. Exhibit 104,378: (Thats deadly nightshade, for those less obssessed with these things)

An image of deadly nightshade is paired with the caption "6 best vegetables to grow in bags", in a screencap from an internet seach

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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

And the reviews for The Girl Who Was Tuesday are in 📖🥕

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Our second-grade science project of raising butterflies has come in handy with the copyediting today. Finally. 💪 Butterflies do not "hatch," they "emerge," and not from an "egg" but a "chrysalis" 💪🦋 #amediting

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Honestly, being a copyeditir is *exactly* like being a doctor. You think you're off duty and then... The dreaded "rn"/"m" typo. Bam. Right in your face Can we never rest 🙄 #amediting accidentally

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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

London folks! Meet THE Joe Butler at Horrified Con this weekend. Along with his Diachro release "Imperfect Creatures", you can grab his other excellent mind-bending novels 😵‍💫 horrorfied.co.uk @writelikeashark.bsky.social #horror #indielit #spookyscary

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I'm highly biased, but this is *such a fun* novella. Get an advanced peek and post a review.

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Niche editor bugbear: Cannot wrap my head around citation styles that include publisher CITY but not PUBLISHER. Who is that helping?! Why would you do that! #amediting

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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

In some NEWS, we have a brand-new book for you all to get hyped for 📖💥 The Girl Who Was Tuesday by Beatriz Seelaender is a chaotic meditation on autonomy, and individuality set against a veggie-based murder mystery. It's quirky, original, and a little bit batshit.

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The Girl Who Was Tuesday ︎ ︎ Pre-order available soon! Sign up to be an Advanced Reader for The Girl Who Was Tuesday! Quirky,...

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Just learned—due to googling something I #amediting —that baby's breath is an invasive species in my home province of British Columbia. Which I find so ticklishly delightful. Baby's breath, that old delicate yet life-ruining fiend.

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a row of white daisies along a dirt road

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I can tell life is really wearing me down, because I use at least 40% fewer exclamation points in my comments and emails then I did two years ago. An exclamation point? In this economy?? etc. #amediting

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

You know you're in editor mode when you google your own name to check its spelling in the acks 😆 #amediting

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 04/12/2025

the rabbits outside my office window have achieved a near perfect roundness

Cartoon drawing of two rabbit-like spheres, one sitting and one hopping

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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

You should prepare yourself immediately for some mole-related weirdness across five planes of existence. Plus a sky infant Welcome, @iangoodale.bsky.social to Diachro ☁️👶 diachroneitybooks.com/News

An announcement featuring the face of Diachroneity Books' latest author, a white man with glasses, a brown beard and brown hair. The text reads: Diachroneity Books is pleased to announce its newest author Ian Goodale.

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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

This is your 💥last chance💥 to submit to our verse novel call. If your poetry has yet to find a home, we might be it! The window closes on Sunday. Deets here: diachroneitybooks.com/Submit

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Submit — Diachroneity Books

SUBMIT ︎ We need to publish your weird shit, your uncanny valleys, the fiction that doesn’t fit in ✦ Diachro’s next submission window...

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Fellow Canadians who probably at *some point* bought bread at a Loblaws establishment between 2001 and 2021: Don't forget to get your bread crime money, by Dec 12! Don't need $50 and it seems not wroth the trouble? Get it and donate to your local food bank. www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca

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Canadian Packaged Bread Class Actions Settlement

This website has been established to provide general information related to the proposed settlement of the case referred to as Canadian Packaged Bread Class Actions Settlement.

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

"Goad" has got to have one of the best synonym lists of all time: spur, prick, needle, beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, egg on, encourage, harass, harry, hassle, incite, jab, molest, plague, prod, provoke, stab *Chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy*!! And ... stab?? #amediting

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Iva Cheung @ivacheung.com · 19/11/2025

This is exploitative model is largely the fault of Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell.

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

#amediting a text about a 1689 Mexican play that's like "Hmmm you think we're weird for sacrificing humans, yet in your religion you eat Christ's flesh and drink his blood? OK then." People have always been critical and clever about religion (and colonialism), we just reaaally don't learn about it

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Nothing more productive than running a spellcheck on an English manuscript heavy with German, French, and Italian quotes and cites. Lettre, lettere, lettore, letter—they're all correct!! #amproofing

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Preorders are now available for Imperfect Creatures by @writelikeashark.bsky.social ! If you like your cosmic entities riddled with death anxiety, your worlds all snowy and slightly off, and the text to be all over the place, then look no further! The second book from @diachroneity.bsky.social!

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Proofing save of the day: "...had already began." >> "had already begun." 😅 #amediting

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Changing my sole proprietorship address upon moving home is proving so difficult (I'm about 18 logins/authentications/portals deep at this point) I'm just going to wait to update it with taxes next year. God I love government websites ❤️ #freelancelife #bureaucracy

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

A client shared the following with me. Not sure what it comes from, but definitely captures one of the best parts of being an #editor 🤓 #amediting #edibuddies

Newspaper clipping that reads: A joy of the job was that you became an expert for two weeks on some subject you'd never thought much about—rocket science, foreskin, sand. ("Suddenly, the writer gets this paid friend to care about the same thing they care about," Rachel Aviv observed.) We'd send around e-mails with subject lines like "Anybody ever been a competitive rower?," "Anybody well versed in the history of young, heavily scrutinized female celebrities?"

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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Make like Homer and write us a verse narrative! Diachro is now open for submissions of *verse novels* from authors looking to join our stable of weirdo books. Window closes Nov 30. Deets on the deets page: diachroneitybooks.com/Submit #writing #amwriting #booksky #poetry #publishing

A scene from the Illiad illustrated in a children's book, depicting "The Fight for the Body of Patroclus" in illustration style

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Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Little Ghosts Books is open for Submissions! From now until Nov. 1st, submit your horror novellas for consideration to our small press and kick off spooky season! More details about the call and our publishing house are available on the website: www.littleghostsbooks.com/novellasubmi... 🖤👻📚

The little ghosts webpage features a sheet ghost typing on a typewriter and blowing bubbles through a pipe while a coffee ghost looks on.

This type says LITTLE GHOSTS IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS:

Little Ghosts Books is looking for standalone Horror Novellas (40k word count).

We'll be open to submissions Sept. 1- Nov.1.

Little Ghosts books is a horror publishing house with a focus on stories from the LGBTQA+ community & BIPOC authors. We greatly encourage first time authors to submit work, and will consider partial manuscripts at the time of submission so long as the writer can commit to a schedule alongside our publishing timeline.

Little Ghosts does not publish YA /children's lit or individual author short story collections at this time.

If you have any additional questions or concerns, you can reach our inbox directly at
littleghostssubmissions@gmail.com

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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Come, join us in Harrow. Meet the House. Seeking Advanced Readers for Joe Butler's forthcoming mind-melting horror *Imperfect Creatures* (Nov 2025) Sign up: forms.gle/mPRirtP2gEv3...

A closeup of a woman's creepy face, from the cover of Imperfect Creatures by Joe Butler. Quote reads: "I am a fragment of silt caught in a diver's headlamp. I am nothing. I am an explorer beyond the bounds of life. Beyond reason."

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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

🤘We'll be opening for submissions very soon🤘 From Sep 1 to Nov 30, we're looking for: 📖 Verse novels 🫀 Novel-length narratives told through poetry 💥 Free verse or formal verse 🛹 Minimum of c. 40,000 words More information here: diachroneitybooks.com/Submit

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Submit — Diachroneity Books

SUBMIT ︎ We need to publish your weird shit, your uncanny valleys, the fiction that doesn’t fit in ✦ Diachro’s next submission...

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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

👻🏘️ Book announcement 🏘️👻 Our next release will be Imperfect Creatures by @writelikeashark.bsky.social diachroneitybooks.com/Imperfect-Cr...

The cover of Imperfect Creatures by Joe Butler. A close-up of a distorted face with three mouths and four eyes, overlaid with a red rectangle, which is surrounded by four red frames.

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

#edibuddies please help my little experimental publishing project choose the cover for our next book:

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Googling Chris Hadfield because I #amediting, and love that the first returned image is of this li'l stink eye

Astronaut Chris Hadfield wearing a white button down shirt and giving a distinctive stink eye to the camera

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do. So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 08/06/2025

There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

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Jaclyn Arndt @jalcynardnt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It's been nigh a decade, but I still miss the Microsoft Word feature that told you where in the total word count your cursor was (e.g. 2500/10500 words) Memories ... Misty water-colored memories ... 😔 #amediting

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