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Here’s a common predicament: Your client hasn’t been through any kind of developmental editing before hiring you to copy-edit their bo...

AI is a hot topic with editors. The big question on everyone’s mind is: Are the robots going to take over our editing jobs? My take is...

When I first started out, I actually freelanced as a copywriter – that is, I wrote marketing copy, and the occasional piece of n...

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...

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 ...

According to psychologist Carl Jung, the ‘persona’ is the mask we wear in public. It can be worn both deliberately and unc...

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

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

Not all freelance professionals think about networking, especially if they’re already getting enough work. But there’s more to network...

It’s true: there’s some crossover in what book coaches and developmental editors do. Authors can hire either a book coach or a d...