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Helping authors and businesses polish their text for publication: non-fiction editor and proofreader. Diploma in Egyptology. Random nature photos. In the UK. She/her https://www.suzannearnold.com https://linktr.ee/suzannearnoldeditor
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · Jan 30
Proofread like a professional!

Free download containing my top tips for proofreading.

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#NonFiction #NonFictionBook #NonFictionBooks #NonFictionWriters #WritingCommunity #proofreading #ProofreadingTips
Image of a guide's cover. The photo shows pink flowers backlit by the sun against a clear blue sky. The text reads: Proofreading: Top tips from a pro January 2025 Suzanne Arnold.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 3d
#StetWalk
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 4d
Many thanks to @lisarandisi.bsky.social for a wonderful day at the Petrie Museum in London. First, a handling session, looking at ephemera – eg newspaper used to wrap an item during excavation.

Then I worked in the university library for a few hours. Then more ephemera this evening.
Lisa Randisi in the museum wearing gloves and holding an artefact tray, speaking to a group of people who are not shown. A newspaper from January 1897 that has been posted from London to Petrie in Egypt. Selfie in the library, wearing a shirt with books on it. In a lecture theatre. Lisa is standing in front of a projection screen showing the title slide: Between object and archive: the Petrie’s Archaeological Ephemera Project.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 5d
Marvellous unexpected treat to sit outside for today’s green marketing session from Small Business Britain 🌞
Selfie sitting on the balcony with a hot drink and headphones, listening to an online class.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 6d
🙄
Another list: 3, 1, 4, 5.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 6d
It may not look like it matters, but I believe it would affect the experience for anyone using a screen reader.

For example, if I ask Word Read Aloud to read the original sentence to me, it says: 'als zero'.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 6d
It's a zero, rather than a letter O.

The red tracked letter is a letter, to show the slight difference in height.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 6d
How about now?
The same word, with tracked changes on a letter inserted. It now reads: also0.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 6d
Editors will know why this has got me excited. Can you see it?
Screengrab of a word: als0.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 6d
Well that fixed it 😆
The list now goes: 1, 2, 6, 3, 7.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 6d
Editor's Christmas wishlist: for a numbered list in Word to need styling only once...

#AmEditing
Screengrab showing a list in Word numbered 1, 2, 3, 6, 7.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 7d
'We recognize the desire to have good indexes quickly and cheaply. However, AI is not currently capable of producing even adequate indexes. Quality indexes that meet reader needs and expectations still require fine-grained human judgment.'

asindexing.org/ai-news/stat...

@asindexing.bsky.social
Statement on AI and Book Indexing | American Society for Indexing
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 8d
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Anthropic Settlement: What Authors Should Know - The Authors Guild
Copyright holders recently secured preliminary approval of a $1.5 billion class settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, in which authors Andrea Bartz, Kirk Johnson, and Charles Graeber led a class-...
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 8d
Have someone check everything before you sign it off to print – even small items can have embarrassing typos…

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate
Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media
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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 11d
FYI - @authorsguild.org has an upcoming webinar for authors & illustrators. "Anthropic Settlement: What Authors Should Know" looks very worthwhile for those whose books were involved. authorsguild.org/event/anthro...
Anthropic Settlement: What Authors Should Know - The Authors Guild
Copyright holders recently secured preliminary approval of a $1.5 billion class settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, in which authors Andrea Bartz, Kirk Johnson, and Charles Graeber led a class-...
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 8d
What a month! Two editing conferences (lots of learning and immense fun catching up with #edibuddies) and a bunch of archaeology texts.

October's looking just as busy, but in different ways. 😃
Highlights September 2025 • Copy-edited articles for the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology • Copy-edited a business book • Started proofreading an archaeology book • Proofread an archaeology magazine • Attended the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading conference and ACES: The Society for Editing virtual conference • Started Small Business Britain’s Green Growth CPD programme.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 11d
Info for authors who may be affected by the Anthropic settlement.
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 12d
Authors: You can now search the official Works List to confirm whether your books are part of the class and FILE your Claim Form to receive compensation.

Learn how: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
Is Your Book in the Anthropic Settlement Class? Find Out and File a Claim - The Authors Guild
The court granted preliminary approval of the settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic on September 25, 2025, and you can now search the official Works List to confirm whether your books are part of the class...
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 13d
Two weeks ago, I'd just done the first day of @acesediting.bsky.social #VCon25. I went from that straight to Milton Keynes for @the-ciep.bsky.social #CIEP2025.

And then, because I wasn't tired enough, I went into London three times in four days – Starlight Express with Mum 🎉

Wonderful two weeks!
Photo montage: an ACES VCon badge of attendance; photos from the CIEP conference, of speakers and a couple of selfies; two selfies with my mum, including one outside Starlight Express in London.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 14d
I recognise many more of the words and phrases in this update:

premium.oxforddictionaries.com/words/summer...
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 19d
I definitely enjoy deskfast a few times a week, and my mailbox does occasionally induce a moment of desk rage.

A very bingeable update from the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Oxford English Dictionary
The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.
www.oed.com
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 25d
Thanks to everyone at @acesediting.bsky.social for a fantastic #VCon25. Oh yes these dates for 2026 have gone straight in the diary 🎉

Hope you all get a good rest this weekend.
Photo showing slide: VCon26 our fifth annual virtual conference: Sept 16-18 2026.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 25d
Spacial Chat – wow!

Yes, I know in this pic I'm on my own – it didn't really seem fair to screen grab other people!

You walk around rooms or gardens and when you go near people you can talk to them – actually talk, not type in chat. It's a way of recreating coffee break chat online.

#ACESVCon25
A computer-generated image of a room with chairs around a table. On one of the chairs is a circle containing my image from my webcam. I could sit around this table and chat with other people, and another group could sit around another table and have a completely separate conversation. The SpacialChat name and logo appear at the top of the screen grab.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 25d
We're ready with a yellow toy to bat around the room and a fun frame to make us smile while we learn 😻

#ACESVCon25 @acesediting.bsky.social
Photo of a black and white cat lying on the floor looking towards us and reaching towards us with one hand slightly blurred, and a blur of yellow across the top-left corner where a toy is moving.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 26d
Been chatting with #edibuddies 🎉

A few conversations about journals, learning from people who've worked on them longer than I have. And this evening another friendly and supportive group has been chatting about developmental editing.

The editing community is awesome. #ACESVCon25
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 26d
Thanks, Zoom – I might not have noticed I'd joined my own call otherwise! 😂

#ACESVCon
Email from Zoom: Suzanne Arnold has joined your meeting.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 26d
I’ve been looking forward to this one!

#ACESVCon
Zoom title slide: beyond semantics: embedding accessibility checks into every editing pass. Moniqa Paullet.