Please stop giving villains in books messy teeth or skin conditions or scars or disabilities. And don’t make them short and/or fat either. It equates disability and/or fatness with evil. And publishers should be questioning + addressing these things in the editing process.

Welp, I guess I can retire now. These acknowledgments in a book I copyedited are just too much for my lil heart to take 🥹🥹🥹 #WinJar

I #AmEditing and just caught a usage of “stalagmite” that should be “stalactite,” which I know the difference between only from watching Bill Nye the Science Guy as a child.

Never Eat Spicy Worms 🌶🐛

I have watched this 20 times in a row

New blog post! As we deal with the wreckage of #RoeVWade and escalating anti-trans legislation, it's vital to talk/write about #abortion and #ReproductiveJustice in ways that are inclusive of #trans, #nonbinary, and #intersex folks. Get the full practices: radicalcopyeditor.com/2023/02/06/abo…

Today’s #CapsuleCollective highlight: Anna Dobbin is an author and freelance copy editor, proofreader, and conscious language specialist. Her writing has appeared in the middle grade anthologies The Hero Next Door and Totally Middle School.

Anna Dobbin’s #essay “Unexpecting” is published in Capsule Stories Winter 2022 Edition: Hibernation, now available in paperback and ebook. Buy your copy here: capsulestories.com/winter-2022-ed…

Announcing our 2022 #PushcartPrize noms! 🎉 🖋️ “To Lose” by Veronica Nation 🖋️ “Suncatcher” by Hantian Zhang 🖋️ “Cradled” by Eve Croskery 🖋️ “The Light and the Lake” by Dana Getka 🖋️ “Dear Tree Committee” by Jennifer Clark 🖋️ “Unexpecting” by Anna Dobbin capsulestories.com/2022-pushcart-…

I’m super excited and honored to share that Capsule Stories has nominated my essay “Unexpecting” for a Pushcart Prize! What an *unexpected* (heh) delight!!!

Poll for my #edibuddies: With the speech tag "shouted" (or a synonym—she yelled, she cried, she exclaimed, etc.), should the dialogue itself end with an exclamation point? In other words: ["Don't go," she shouted.] Would you change the comma to an exclamation point?

Glad to see that the majority of you think the exclamation point is the way to go. In recent copyedits, I’ve switched commas out for exclamation points a number of times in these situations, so I was starting to worry about it. Thanks, #edibuddies‼️

#CallForSubmissions! Our Spring/Summer 2023 Edition theme is Lost in Translation. We’re looking for stories, poems, and essays about miscommunications and cultural differences. Submissions close Feb. 28 at 11:59 p.m. CT. Full guidelines here: capsulestories.submittable.com/submit

⭐️ The 2023 WNDB Internship Grant application is now OPEN! ⭐️ Are you of a diverse background and looking to work in either children's OR adult publishing? We continue to offer $3,000 grants, 12 for children's-focused internships and 12 for adult-focused! bit.ly/igp2023

I had a baby last week, and she is perfect in every way, but of course my husband and I are completely exhausted. In our delirium we’ve started using names of wines and cocktails to refer to my breastmilk. Current faves: Momignon Blanc Boobjolais Mamaschewitz Mom Collins Momtini

We are pleased to have We Need Diverse Books anthology The Hero Next Door edited by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich on the 23-24 MCBA list. RJ Palacio @ElloEllenOh @LRGiles Mike Jung Hena Khan @LindaSuePark Anna Dobbin Ronald L. Smith Left @suma_v_s Rita Williams-Garcia