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Reading back your first-person narrative, you realise you’ve started nearly every sentence with the pronoun ‘I’. It stands out to you,...

You’ve been dreaming about becoming a freelance editor for years, and yet it never feels like the right time to make the move. A...

Every year, I love spending some time to slow down and reflect on the months gone by, using that insight to point me in the right dire...

Once you’ve been a professional editor for a while, it’s easy to get a bit cocky. You think you know it all. But every once in a while...

What’s going on in the publishing industry these days? In this guest post, Mark Gottlieb, a literary ...

As a freelance editor, you need an online presence – and that means having your own website. But how on earth do you build one? Well, ...

This is a guest post by Amelia Wiens, a fiction editor who has taken both my developmental editing ...

If you’re a writer with a completed draft and you want to make sure you have a brilliant novel, this is for you. Whether you want to s...

If you’re anything like me, you’re more of a word-person than a numbers-person. And that can make the accounting side of running ...

How you prepare your novel for traditional publishing will vary a little depending on the exact way your agent and publisher operate, ...

If you want to self-publish your novel, the biggest piece of advice I can give you is to think like a business owner. Why? Because pub...

If self-publishing professionally is important to you, I whole-heartedly urge you to try and save some money for editing. But I also u...