Katie Van Heest

Chair of National Endowment for the Humanities Leaves at Trump’s ‘Direction’ Shelly C. Lowe, a scholar of higher education and the first Native American to lead the agency, was appointed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

I've never used this abbreviation before, but smh. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/a...

All the Tweed valentines are downloadable here. Circulate as you wish! tweedediting.com/postcards/

An array of conversation hearts with academic and literary messages on them

Happy Et al.entine’s Day, everybody!

Thanks also to @pathsinpub.bsky.social for facilitating this!

Honored to write this review of @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's Big Fiction for @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social. Stimulating in itself, this book is also great fodder for further contemplation: Here I focus on applications for publishing curricula and on conglomeration's implications for editorial work.

An array of pastel conversation hearts with academic messages, like "Cite Me," "Ibid. Forever," "See Syllabus," and "I Blurb U."

New valentine design: academic conversation hearts!
(Order soon: The samples spent 9 days, or 7 business days, in transit.)
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#academicvalentine #academicvalentine

Someone is not using headphones in this waiting room. What they’re playing is Prince, but it’s still bad form. 🔇

NIH Study Sections have been cancelled. These are groups of experts who get paid a pittance, if anything, to review research funding applications from their peers. The result of these reviews is to rank these research grants to decide which proposals get funded.

Fortune from a fortune cookie that reads “You have a charming way with words. You should write a book!”

Thanks, fortune cookie. How about I just edit hundreds of books instead?

Academic valentine that reads “Sorry, no reviewers found. You’re without peer.”

A little affirmation for your day.
Digital and print
#academicvalentines now available on my website:
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Tweed valentine in situ at an academic library! 📚

An array of academic valentines

Academic valentines are back! And by request, some of this year's designs are purely collegial. 💌
(Given shipping estimates, order soon for 2/14.) tweedediting.threadless.com #academicvalentines #academicvalentine

Oh, that's super clever!

My first donut chart, and I love it! I crunched some data re: the manuscripts I've edited over fifteen years; at least 108 of them have become scholarly books. Top fields include religious studies, history, English, and anthropology. Next project: figure out how to animate w/o cursor 🙃

A minibook of The Chicago Manual of Style inside a lit holiday wreath

It’s beginning to look a lot like CMOS! 📒
#cmos #chicagostyle #cmos18 @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Those of you planning to have me edit your manuscripts in 2025, consider locking in 10% off a gift certificate before the end of the year. (People have given these to themselves—just sayin'!)

What is it about Depeche Mode’s “Policy of Truth” that makes my brain go right from “Never again is what you swore the time before” to “And the whole world loves it when you make that sound”? Is Outkast’s ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-da the same little motif?

What a great resource. Everyone should know about the AUPresses Subject Area Grid! I recommend it especially often to authors whose work is intersectional.

People have asked, and the answer is yes: I do offer gift certificates for editing. And should I add a special 10% off through the end of the year? Yes, I will!

Inquire here or email me at katie@tweedediting.com.

Happy holidays!

Direct from Tweed Editing’a Archetypewriter, choose your end-of-term persona

End-of-term personas with simple graphics and short descriptions: Grumpy Grader, Reading Reindeer, Candlelight Scribe, and Weepy Mentor

End-of-term personas with simple graphics and descriptions: Departmental self, Syllabus Stalwart, Time Reclaimer, Jolly Juggler

End-of-term personas with graphics and short descriptions: Tenured Toymaker and Evergreen Editor

Come December, every academic reverts to character. Which one are you? ❄️

Graphi representation of a gift certificate that reads "The gift of editing is hereby presented to blank in the amount of blank. Tweed Editing."

Every so often, someone asks me about gift certificates. I do offer them on request! #academicediting #scholarlywriting #scholarlypublishing #academicpublishing #academicwriting

I’ll poke around! The tracks in the doc(k) make a great starter pack.

Is there a Doobie bounce playlist?

How Barnes & Noble Went From Villain to Hero (Published 2022) To independent booksellers, the enormous chain was once a threat. Now it’s vital to their survival. And it’s doing well.

www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/a...

Lots of local popups going on at Lloyd Center mall in Portland today. To my own surprise, I’m especially happy to see Barnes & Noble so festive—and busyish.

It’s all coming together! I remember being shocked years ago to learn about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program. Now I see the vision/endgame all around.

Any book you're giving to an academic writer this holiday season can support a local bookstore if you buy through Bookshop.org. My suggestions are in the repost below!

An worn red book cover that reads Many Thanks by Tweed Editing”

Filled with gratitude for all the insightful manuscripts that come my way year round. Happy Thanksgiving, authors and colleagues!

As soon as I suspect an aura is forming, I try to read something. Or I look at myself in the mirror: if I can see only one eye clearly, then that’s confirmation. What a life!