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Mark your calendar
- February 21: Member meeting
- March 21: Member meeting
Member meetings — other than special events — take place from 7 to 9 pm in the Windsor Pavilion, 2451 Windsor Road, Oak Bay.
You can also find event information on the PEAVI website at http://peavi.ca/events/
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You're invited! Join fellow PEAVI-ites at 10:30 a.m. on Saturdays at Ogden Point's Breakwater Cafe for the best views in town, delicious breakfasts and excellent company.
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Next meeting: February 21, 2017
Demystifying Book Promotion
Don Gorman, publisher of Rocky Mountain Books, will talk about what it takes to promote books in the midst of today's publishing and bookselling challenges. To what degree are authors with traditional publishers involved in marketing, and how has that changed? What are the best promotion strategies, whether self-published or traditionally published? How do retailers fit into the world of promotion? How do you determine whether your project is one that might succeed? And how important is it for you to find the right publisher to work with?
Please RSVP to chair@peavi.ca if you plan to attend, as seating in the Windsor Pavillion is limited and the event is open to the public.
Don Gorman has spent most of his professional life working within the book trade and has held positions as a bookseller, bookstore owner, publisher’s sales representative, acquisitions editor and publisher. In 2006 he took over Rocky Mountain Books, a well-established and respected guidebook company that was publishing 3-5 books per year. Since then, he has reimagined the company’s overall vision and now successfully publishes and promotes a yearly catalogue of 30-40 provocative, engaging and award-winning books on mountain history, adventure travel, outdoor culture, environmental consciousness, contemporary photography and children's books. He has served on the boards of the Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP), Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia (ABPBC), the Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA), and the College of Fellows for the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. An avid fly fisherman, hiker and runner, Don and his family live in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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New member
Welcome to Doug Harrison, PEAVI's newest member!
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Member news
We'd love to hear your editing news. Whether you're working on an interesting project, or a book you edited has recently been published, we're all ears. And if you have a photo to illustrate your story, please send it along, too.
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Tracking time
The strong turnout for last month's member meeting suggests that efficient time tracking and invoicing are high on our editing priority lists. Some members discussed using (and loving) online tools, some said they use spreadsheets and others find that a simple notebook is adequate. With that in mind, here's a list of some of the tools we discussed. Thanks to Martin Gavin for taking notes.
Toggl: The free version does basic time tracking and users can generate reports and produce graphs. Paid versions start at $10 per month.
Harvest: The free version is limited to one user and two projects. The user-friendly paid version is $150 per year and enables users to generate invoices free-form, or automatically from the time-tracked.
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Fanurio: $59 for a perpetual single user license with annual maintenance plan.
MyHours by Spica: Free for individual users and $3 US for the pro version.
Excel spreadsheet: Several members use Excel to log time. To calculate the invoice amount, they use a formula to convert the time to a decimal function. If you'd like to know how, visit http://www.excelfunctions.net/.
MS Word tracks Total Editing Time. In Office 365 this feature is in the Info section of the File tab, under Properties. You can learn how it works at http://bit.ly/2kyt7fF; however, when I tested it against both an online tool and manual logging, it appeared to continue adding time when it should have paused. It could have been my error, but please test it before relying on it.
If you're looking for a good business resource, you might enjoy Richard Adin's The Business of Editing: Effective and Efficient Ways to Think, Work, and Prosper.
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Volunteer corner
PEAVI's team of volunteers is growing! Thank you, Moira Dann, for stepping into the promotions role to publicize PEAVI events and workshops.
Many hands make light work.
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Interesting reads
We found these interesting and thought you might, too:
Thank you, Lenore, for sharing these!
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On the lighter side
- Test your vocabulary with Merriam-Webster's Word of The Day Quizz:
http://bit.ly/2iqU7Ki
- Found on www.goodreads.com:
“A good editor is like a pair of Spanx: firming up the body, making the subject look good, and absolutely invisible.” ― Sandi Layne
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Ideas? Content? Feedback?
Do you have content, ideas, or feedback you'd like to share, an idea for a monthly meeting topic or a suggestion for a particular speaker? Please share!
Please contact Lynne, Island Editor's coordinator, at communications@peavi.ca.
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