The Professional Editor's Group publishes a quarterly newsletter for members called PEGboard.

Below we give selected information from earlier issues of PEGboard. This section of our Website is not currently being updated, but this will be resumed once the revamp we are working on is complete. We thank you for your understanding.

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Vol. 11 No. 4 November 2004

• The independent editor... [Article by Maron Boers: "Musings on the highways and byways of a freelance existence]
• Meeting reportback [Meeting of 3 September 2004: "Blame the gremlins" -- members' horror stories from the world of publishing]
• Meeting reportback [Two Qestion and Answer meetings held in August]
• TechnoTalk: Using Google
• Questions and Answers: First installment of the detailed reportback on the August meetings. For the full report, click here.
• Member profile: Judith Marsden
• Book review: Port Out, Starboard Home and Other Language Myths by Michael Quinion

Vol. 11 No. 3 August 2004

• It's about time... [Article by Paul Schamberger on calculating charges on a time basis]
• Meeting reportback [Meeting of 19 June 2004 on "By Mystery Possessed", a video examining literary analysis]
• Member profile: Denise Diamond
• Which alphabet to use for a Web address?
• Highway Africa 2004
• New literary award
• TechnoTalk
• Book review: Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss

Vol. 11 No. 2 May 2004

• If I were a rich man... [Reportback on a workshop on the fees editors should be charging]
• World Book Day 2004
• World Book Capital 2005
• IBBY in SA
• Book review: The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg

Vol. 11 No. 1 February 2004

• Creating life skills material for adults
• The PEG AGM
• Meeting reportback [Meeting of 5 August 2003 on "The challenges of the Caxton newsroom!"
• Dining with Deena: Overview of PEG's 10th Anniversary Dinner in November 2003
• Highway Africa 2003
• Books for editors
• Community Publishing
• Analogies and metaphors

Vol. 10 No. 4 November 2003

This was a special issue of PEGboard commemorating the Group's ten years of existence. It gave glimpses of activities and progress over the years and contained some reminiscing articles and reprints of others from earlier issues.

[This page was last updated on 23 April 2008]