Your Editing Business Doesn’t Have to Conform
Every now and then, I see a forum or social media post from a desperate editor. ‘Please tell me, is it really possible to earn a full-...
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Latest from the blogEditing Before Querying: What Fiction Editors Should Recommend
You’re a freelance fiction editor who works directly with authors. These authors are usually either planning to self-publish or submit to literary agents. If the latter, the author wants their manuscript to be as strong as possible before they start querying –...
Read moreMy Single Guiding Principle as a Professional Fiction Editor
I’m a professional fiction editor. And for me, there’s a single guiding principle behind every editorial decision I make. It’s simply ...
Read moreAre Freelance Editors Rich? A Personal Story
I have a complicated relationship with money, but then I suspect most of us do. I’ve never had a great deal of it. I don’t come from a...
Read moreHow Many Submissions Do Literary Agents Receive?
If your clients want to be a published authors, they have two main options. They can either self-publish or they can work with a tradi...
Read moreDo You Need to Understand Copy-Editing And Proofreading to Offer Developmental Editing?
In a nutshell … nope! Developmental editing is very different to copy-editing and proofreading ...
Read moreShould You Provide Feedback on a Novel While It’s Still Being Written?
Providing feedback while the author is still writing their first draft is a tricky thing. Because it takes so long to write a novel, i...
Read moreEditing Semi-Colons in Fiction: A Guide for Line and Copy-Editors
What is it about the semi-colon (;) that is so alluring to writers? Is it because it feels like a sophisticated punctuation mark – mor...
Read moreHow Much Description Should a Novel Have?
Description is the seasoning that flavours a story. It’s the smattering of details that prevents a novel from feeling bland. In the sa...
Read moreFocus and Productivity: What Works for Me
If you run your own editing business, the more you work, the more you earn. Which means it’s in your best interest to be as productive...
Read moreDifferent Kinds of Author Clients – Who Do You Want to Serve?
Not all authors have the same goals, attitudes or emotions when it comes to publishing their books. Matching your editing style to the...
Read moreHow to Edit Metaphors: A Guide for Line and Copy-Editors
Metaphors are powerful weapons in an author’s writing arsenal. (See what I did there? That was a metaphor.) A thoughtfully writt...
Read moreHelping Authors with Their Novel Synopsis
A synopsis is a one-page summary of a novel, used to demonstrate the author’s story-crafting skills to a literary agent (or publ...
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