How Much Training Does a Fiction Editor Need?
The purpose of training is twofold: to make sure your skills are up to scratch and to demonstrate to potential clients that you know y...
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Latest from the blogLine Editing Tip: Why Cutting Filter Words Isn’t Always Enough
In fiction, strong point of view (POV) is the reader’s lifeline to immersion. The deeper the POV, the more readers can live inside a character’s experience – see what they see, feel what they feel. One of the most common obstacles to this depth is the presence...
Read moreHow to Write Alternative History & Alternative Reality
Do you spend large chunks of time wondering what the world would have been like if the Roman Empire had never ended or if you’d ...
Read moreWhere is an Author’s Budget for Book Editing Best Spent?
Hiring a professional editor to work on your manuscript can be expensive. And there are lots of different editorial services ...
Read moreWhat Are Beta Readers?
Beta readers are the people who’ll help make an author’s manuscript-in-progress tighter, better and generally more appealing. It...
Read moreHow to Write a Superhero Story
After a long, close association with comics, superhero fiction is enjoying a literary heyday. So if you’re planning to write a s...
Read moreWhat is Magical Realism?
One of the most prolific writers of magical realism, Salman Rushdie, calls the genre ‘a commingling of the improbable and the mundane’...
Read moreMy First Time Presenting at a Conference
Every year, the Society for Editors and Proofreaders hosts a conference. Editorial professionals gather to chat, think and learn. This...
Read moreLessons from An Editing Conference
Every year, the Society for Editors and Proofreaders invites its members to gather for a long weekend of chatting, drinking, eating, w...
Read moreSpeculative Fiction and Horror
What makes a novel a ‘horror’? The definition is surprising tricky to nail, largely because horror fiction isn’t the only ...
Read moreThe Best Science-Fiction Subgenres
Science fiction is just about space travel and aliens, right? Nope, nope and nope again. The genre covers a lot more ground than you m...
Read moreWhy I Hate ‘The War of Art’ by Steven Pressfield
I hate The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. The way the book is written is deeply, deeply flawed and insanely egotistical. The main id...
Read moreThe Best Fantasy Subgenres
Fantasy stories are only limited by the imagination – and there are so many subgenres in this expansive genre of fiction that it can m...
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