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Writer/Editor for Hire, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery. Book and film fanatic. Works on Simon & Schuster’s Star Trek novels, IDW's Star Trek comic books, and Modiphius’s Star Trek Adventures RPG. scott-pearson.com He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · Nov 14

I'm a full-time freelance writer and editor, specializing in genre-fiction copyediting for traditional publishers and indie authors. In between I write genre short stories, some novellas, and a long-suffering novel I keep trying to get back to. See my website for more info! scott-pearson.com

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 1d

For the definition of “mealymouthed,” online dictionaries should simply have a link to this clip.

Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 1d

Star Trek get's it's own bay at @forbidden-planet.bsky.social London, which is nice. Would like to see more novels in stock though (granted, I'm biased since I've worked on them for over a decade)! Pssst, @daytonward.bsky.social... I turned VULCAN face out.

Five shelves of Trek books, heavy on outsized "art of" type books, light on the novels, which are on only the bottom two shelves.

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, I edited that! It's @davidmack.pro's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds novel Ring of Fire at @forbidden-planet.bsky.social London.

Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 1d

Spent too little time in @forbidden-planet.bsky.social London this morning, but saw a lot of great stuff. Like all these @idwpublishing.com Star Trek comic books that I proofread. @heatherantos.bsky.social

Multiple issues of various Star Trek comic books: Lower Decks, Red Shirts, and The Last Starship . . .

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 1d

Beamed into @forbidden-planet.bsky.social London this morning. Fun to see this on display, wouldn't you say @jvancitters.bsky.social?

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe only a dozen Star Trek books on the shelf at Waterstone's Piccadilly, but three of my mates made it: @dattico.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social, and @davidmack.bsky.social. Would liked to have seen many more!

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 2d

Just toured the OG Antifa HQ: Churchill’s War Rooms. We shall never surrender.

Historic conference tables and chairs with a world map on the wall behind Churchill’s chair.

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 2d

My happy place: tea and scones at Waterstone’s Piccadilly.

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 3d

It ripped. It gutted. It skewered. It spattered.

Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 3d

We were thinking of that…

Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 3d

An “ussie” (#TedLasso) on the balcony of our flat in Islington.

Myself and my wife Sandra with a small park in the background, centered on a large tree, looking down from second floor (third floor in American English) balcony.

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 4d

Living it up in Islington enjoying my first ever Bakewell Tart.

A Bakewell Tart, several bites already taken from it, resting on a white plate.

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 5d

At our flat in London… is the shirt too on the nose?

Selfie: I’m wearing a black t-shirt featuring the Union Jack superimposed over the TARDIS

Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 6d

I prefer Indigenous Peoples Day to Colonizer Day.

Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 6d

#TeamTilly

Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 6d

New York friends: If you’re having a strange sense of something being not quite right, it may be because I’m at JFK. Already on connecting flight!

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 6d

I’m in some sort of airport lounge because for the first time in my life I’m not flying in steerage. Feel like a kid who’s sneaked into an adult party. But the T in my G&T is flat as the Dakota plains!

Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 7d

Both parties are the same: Biden was getting forgetful, and Trump tried to overturn an election and now is unleashing the military on American soil. You can hardly tell which is which.

Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 7d

Just because we now live in a police state, that's no reason to get sloppy with grammar and style. So here's the new CMOS Q&A!

The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Edition

Find it. Write it. Cite it. The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. ¶ It is the indispensable reference for ...

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 8d

Nothing like that. Also today it wanted to attach the closing punctuation to a made-up word in a fantasy manuscript, so when I told it to ignore the word, which happened to be followed by a period, it then underlined the same word when followed by an exclamation point. Blurgh.

Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 8d

It's just astonishingly and infuriatingly bad.

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 8d

Earlier today, in a different file, here's MS Word thinking something is wrong with the spelling of "we," but it doesn't know what.

screen cap showing MS Word highlighting the word "we" in a sentence for spelling, but then displaying "No suggestions available" for correcting it.

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 8d

And now in a longer document it's done that whole, "You know what? Why don't I randomly spellcheck these English words in French so they're all wrong?" thing.

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 8d

For a brief moment I thought MS Word spellcheck would function properly all the way through an entire four-page document, but, no, of course it didn't. I know, I know, it's asking a lot of the dominant word-processing program for the last forty years to have a consistently functioning spellcheck.

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Scott Pearson @scottpearson.bsky.social · 8d

I’m looking forward to proofreading both these comic books as my IDW work expands from Star Trek to include horror!

'Smile,' 'A Quiet Place' comics will expand on movies as IDW Dark charts 2026 horror (exclusive) — Entertainment Weekly

A New York Fashion Week-set

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