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Congrats to Amal El-Mohtar on her Nebula Award nomination for Best Novella, 2025! What an honor to have worked on this book. The nomination is a great reminder for me to go listen to the audiobook, which I’ve heard is exquisite.

» The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia) Buy This Bookshop.org Suggest Changes “The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia)” Nominated for Best Novella in 2025 Also Nominated ““Descent”, by Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld 5/25)” “But Not Too Bold, by Hache Pueyo (Tordotcom)” “Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz ...

Blackthorn, a dark Romance by J.T. Geissinger that I had the honor to work on, is a USA Today Bestseller! It's a hot fever dream with small-town drama, murder, and magic. Congrats to J.T. Geissinger and the team at Tor Bramble.

Blackthorn DELUXE EDITION--a deluxe hardback edition featuring stenciled edges, a foil case stamp, exclusive endpapers, and a detailed map. From the diabolical mind of New York Times bestselling author J.T. Geissinger comes a scorching new enemies-to-lovers romance filled with explosive secrets, nail-biting, g...

Just found out that Nat Cassidy's When the Wolf Comes Home, a heart-rending horror novel that I got to proofread, made the USA Today Bestseller List. Huzzah! https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250354341/whenthewolfcomeshome/

https://www.usatoday.com/booklist/books/when-the-wolf-comes-home/9781250354341/2025-04-30

https://wilcoxediting.com/articles/2025/03/05/amal-el-mohtars-river-has-roots-new-release-wings

Amal El-Mohtar's The River Has Roots: A New Release with Wings | Wilcox Editing Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has Roots grabbed me by the heart strings when I had the honor of copyediting it. This novella from Tordotcom Publishing offers a beautiful aesthetic, both inside and out. The story comes as a breath of oxygen and a reminder of how love-affirming stories about women can ...

My client Monica Hall's viral video of reunion with her birth daughter has captured millions of hearts. She just reposted it on YouTube. Did I mention her memoir is on sale for the holidays?

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Practically-Still-Virgin-Adoption-Memoir/dp/B0CYGQQR2K/

https://youtu.be/8z0noyPhJz0?si=AO7rkISYUFp8XRWW

Reunion at the airport in 1991 with the daughter I relinquished for adoption when I was 15. I was adopted at four months old from a crowded foster home. Growing up, I lived in a house with no mirrors—none of my family members looked like me.At 15, I...

Like a shot of humor in your sci-fi? Make it a double with Curtis C. Chen's True Blue Kangaroo, a project I had the privilege of working on.
Preorder today! (Preorders are so helpful for a book's visibility on pub day; if you're interested in a copy, now's the time.) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DH827Q4K?tag=books2read02-20

K3 minus one week! - https://mailchi.mp/84302520f198/k3-minus-one-week

Image: cover of TRUE BLUE KANGAROO by Curtis C. Chen, with blurb - "The space spy prison Venus adventure with heart that you didn't know you needed!" - Kate Ristau, author of Mythwakers

Calling all ! 45 minutes left to participate in my survey:

Erin Wilcox on Twitter “ , what do you call the number you show a prospective client that tells them, after you've reviewed what they need, how much you plan to charge for a project? If it's none of these, please reply with the term you do use! ”

Firsthand should actually be one word, not hyphenated, Hamrosuchana.com, but that makes this no less humiliating for the newspaper in question.

Newspaper humiliated by missing hyphen in hilarious headline fail The Pratt Tribune in Pratt, Kansas suffered a humiliating typo in the print edition of their October 28 newspaper. Someone took a photograph of the small-town newspaper and shared it on Twitter where it quickly went viral. [caption id=attachment_245736 align=aligncenter width=720] (image source; Twi...

I've archived the full text of my introduction to Drunken Boat 21 on my editorial site; that issue of the journal does not seem to have been recovered and preserved at Anomaly, where the rest of the old content lives.

"That Feminine I": Editorial Introduction to Drunken Boat 21 | Wilcox Editing “How could the light have been that different?” asks the narrator in Rachel Jamison Webster’s “Widowed,” comparing her memory of an incandescent moment with a camera’s cold rendering years later. In the face of the video, “all hard lines and ordinary,” she muses, “this is the fear,...