Pam Eidson

@ebeforei.bsky.social

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E before I editorial services. Upending the patriarchy through copyediting. Editing for nonprofits and for authors who respect diversity. she/her bio.site/ebeforei

Sunlight on red maple leaves in spring.

Facebook memory from Oct 23, 2017.

My son, aged 12, reading a quiz card at dinner tonight: "The words all run together because they left out the Oxford Comma!"
My work here is done.

Package of Sanders Maple Dark chocolate sea salt caramels

Seven lines of punctuation marks. Primarily commas and dashes, with ampersands, parentheses, double and single quotation marks, and slashes for good measure.

Snippet of MS Word's Ribbon, rearranged to suit an editor of words. Lots of symbols and command names, such as Font Color, Track Changes, View Macros, and many more. The main tab called Habitat is shown, with items arranged in groups called Galapagos, Emperor, Chinstrap, and Macaroni. This naming convention is merely for fun. No penguins were harmed in the making of this Ribbon.