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I started my editing business over ten years ago. This is the first time I’ve ever taken some extended time away from it. Which feels ...

Let’s talk about the pesky little words ‘or’ and ‘nor’. Some simple guidelines will help you use these words correctly, but the gramma...

When a character tells another character something they obviously already know, this is known as ‘As you know, Bob’ dialogue, and it c...

Being a freelance novel editor isn’t just about sprucing up sentences, fixing wonky grammar and annihilating typos. Nope! There’s a wh...

I got together with a small group of freelance developmental fiction editors, all of us at about the same point in our careers. We cos...

There’s no one set way for an editor to conduct a developmental edit, and therefore how long one takes will vary widely from editor to...

A bout of Covid has slowed me down this December, but I still managed to spend some time reflecting on my last year of business and pl...

It’s that time of year again! Time to wind down, reflect on the year gone by and make plans for the year ahead. I’m going ...

Authors are on a hero’s journey. Their quest? To write and publish novels. Editors are the mentors who aid those heroes. And here’s wh...

According to psychologist Carl Jung, the persona is the mask we wear in public. It can be assumed both deliberately and unconsciously....

Essentially, no – you don’t need experience working in-house for a publisher to become a freelance editor. Different editorial roles F...

Recently, an author planning to self-publish his book asked me if I recommend he use a book-publishing packager. After explaining why ...