I’m delighted to introduce a new initiative that I am developing and launching here at Writer’s Camp: the Working Guide to Editorial Systems (WGES).
The WGES is designed to be a practical, evolving resource for editors, peer reviewers, and others interested in the work of scholarly publishing and knowledge dissemination. Each entry is built around a real editorial question, the kind that arises in the day-to-day work of running a journal, and offers clear, experience-based guidance that can be applied in practice.
This is not a book and not a static collection. The WGES is intended as working editorial infrastructure: something that grows over time, with new entries added regularly.
The Working Guide to Editorial Systems will launch on May 1 with seven inaugural entries. After that, new entries will be published twice monthly, on the 5th and 20th.
This new initiative honors the Editor’s Handbook, which I co-authored for three editions (first with Margaret Comerford Freda and later with Peggy Chinn). There will not be a fourth edition; filling that gap was the inspiration for the Working Guide to Editorial Systems.
Access to the WGES will be by subscription. Early enrollment is now open at a special Founders rate for those who would like to support and participate in this new phase of Writer’s Camp.
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From its inception, Writer’s Camp has been about making the work of writing and editing a little more visible, and a little more manageable. The WGES is one more step in that direction. Please join me on this latest hike along the trail here at Writer’s Camp.