This year's CIEP conference centred on the value of the editorial profession. Quite honestly, I was feeling a little pessimistic about my...

So you're all set to launch your freelance business: you've got the qualifications, the skills, the necessary hardware, a good internet...

When you're taking your first steps as a freelancer, the lack of a clear direction can feel a bit daunting. But you can look at it...

Education is a great specialism for freelance linguists, but it seems to be a relatively little-known path. I've been asked by recent...

The events of 2020 certainly make for an unusual 'year in review' blog post. If this post somehow made its way through the time continuum...

To mark the Publishing Association's Work in Publishing week, I've put together a list of five reasons I enjoy working in the publishing...

The UK Climate Assembly, a group of 108 people chosen to be representative of the UK population, was set up to answer the question: "How...

On 23 April 2019, the Oxford Publishing Society held an online panel discussion entitled Freelancers and In-House Editors: Making it...

Currently exploring the BellaVita exhibition in London, meeting lots of Italian food producers!

This weekend in Bristol, a few rooms tucked away in the corner of the University were transformed into the battle buses of the three main...

We are strangely lacking in middling terms – words to describe with some precision the middle ground between hard and soft, near and far,...

With no flights booked for the immediate future and my work diary filling up, it looks like this blog will be lacking in travel updates...

With little more than a month left in Luxembourg (it’s going so fast!), I realised that I haven’t written much about what this...

A couple of weekends ago, I left Luxembourg and EU politics behind to take part in a Model United Nations (MUN) event at the University...

It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. Franklin P. Jones (via speculativegrammarian)...

There is nowhere I would rather be spending the Rutsch from 2014 to 2015 than the beautiful city of Bath; a city which stole my heart...

I wasn’t going to write a new one this year. But… Be kind to yourself in the year ahead. Remember to forgive yourself, and to forgive...

thelandofmaps: How to wish someone a happy new year in German

The Christmas presents have been unwrapped, the chocolate is already disappearing and the house is silent as everyone reads / assembles /...

Number 2 on my Luxembourg Christmas countdown is, to my mind, the most beautiful part of the city; a picturesque quarter that gives...