EditorJobs.com advertises an opening at Beyond.com–they’re seeking an editor writer to handle newsletters and e-mail marketing campaigns.

McGraw Hill seeks an editor for its Humanities, Social Science and World Languages division. This is an on-site job in NYC and requires two years of associated experience in publishing.

The BOSS Group has an immediate opening in Bethesda, MD for an experienced editor with a bachelor’s degree, three years of experience and fluency in AMA and Chicago Manual of Style.

If you know of any editor jobs you’d like to see posted here, drop us a line in the comments section and we’ll get in touch.

I’m also grateful to those editors who teach me all these cute little grammar things that I had no idea even existed. In doing so they save me from a ton of grief down the road. As much as I hate to be confronted about my mistakes, this confrontation ensures that I will never, ever make that mistake again.

Of course, I’ve got a ton of bad writing habits that need correcting–and I’d happily correct them myself if I knew what they were…but I don’t. Which is why editors were created. To know. Of course, they have to forsake their personalities for that knowledge, but they feel it is a worthy sacrifice.

Kidding editors….kidding….

The site is aimed at copyeditors, but anyone involved in freelance editing or freelance writing should have a look. There is so much valuable information on the mechanics of writing and editing that I’m shocked The Slot’s Bill Walsh hasn’t written a book with this stuff.

Oh, wait–he did. Walsh is the author of Lapsing Into A Comma, and The Elephants of Style, which includes some evolutionary thoughts on writing and editing that FINALLY seem to be creeping into the mainstream. Have a look at Walsh’s site to learn more about striking a balance between  “Once wrong, always wrong” (which I used to believe in exclusively until I took off the necktie and got a life) and “Everybody does it.”

Don’t miss TheSlot.com, especially if you are new to the editor/writer game. Especially great–the recent post titled “A Common Mistake”. Priceless.

I won’t try to fool you–this site is far too new to have people writing Dear Editor questions to it already. But this is one I get a lot from newcomers who want to give themselves as much of a chance as possible to get freelance jobs, so I am using it to kick off this featured portion of the site.

Can you be an editor writer? A writer/editor? An editor slash writer?

The short answer is yes. The longer answer is, you have to understand the craft of writing in order to be an effective editor. Are you still struggling with possesive apostrophes and where to use a semi-colon? If so, you might not be ready to be an editor writer or writer/editor just yet.

That’s not to say you shouldn’t try. You can improve your craft greatly by editing the work of other writers–look at the weaknesses of others and you’ll soon recognize your own shortcomings. Just don’t try to be an editor for money until you feel you have a commnad of English grammar and sentence construction. You should also buy a copy of the McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Usage and Grammar. It’s a great tool to help you get intimate with English so you can become that double-threat editor writer.

Developing Quality Technical Information Second Edition is, as the name implies, aimed at technical writers and editors. Reviewers of this book on technical writing praise it for being exactly what it tells the writer editor to do. In other words, this book practices exactly what it preaches. This book actually illustrates techincal writing techniques. Learn how to do it right and see examples of the techniques in action. For editor writer types looking to break into technical writing, you could put yourself far ahead of the game armed with this book.