How I Feel About Social Media
I have a complicated relationship with social media. Sometimes I love it. Sometimes I hate it. I use it in both a professional and per...
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Latest from the blogHow Do I Build a Website?
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, there are several options. Knowing what these options are and then choosing the right one for you is the first – arguably most...
Read moreWhat Makes a Good Steampunk Novel?
If you don’t know much about steampunk, you probably think this literary genre is just science fiction set in Victorian times. B...
Read moreSmall Business Chat with Libro Editing
Small Business Chat is a blog series orchestrated by Liz Dexter over at Libro Editing. Over the years, Liz has interviewed all differe...
Read moreHow to Write Great Characters
Think about your favourite book. What specifically do you love about it? I bet one of the things you love most is a particular charact...
Read moreHow Many Hours a Day Does an Editor Work?
If you’re a freelance editor, have you ever asked yourself how many hours a day you should spend editing? You might wonder how y...
Read moreHow to Write Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a genre that has been pithily characterised as ‘high tech, low life’. Sure, it’s all about hackers and far-out tech, but ...
Read moreWhat is Developmental Editing?
If there’s one thing that drives me bonkers in the editorial world, it’s the lack of coherent descriptions for all the different edito...
Read moreClient Interview: Gina Maya on Writing Surrealist Dystopia
I caught up with one of my past clients, Gina Maya, whose surrealist novel Utopia in Danzig I had previously critiqued and ...
Read more5 Comma Rules You Can Sometimes Break
Commas. They look so insignificant and innocent, but in reality they’re tricky little monsters that can have a big impact on a piece o...
Read moreHow to Write Surrealist Fiction
Most of us are familiar with surrealist images like Salvador Dali’s Three Sphinxes of Bikini, but even though surrealism was – and sti...
Read moreClient Interview: Charlie Maclean on Writing Dual Timelines
I recently caught up with a past client to see how he was getting on, and he kindly agreed to talk about his experience publishing his...
Read moreJoanne Harris on Working with Editors
I love Joanne Harris (author of Chocolat), and she truly rocks Twitter. The other day she shared her thoughts on editors. In case you ...
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