Courses
Comprehensive foundational training for fiction editors that get you client-ready.
Learn the core skills needed to build a freelance novel-editing career with these self-paced, on-demand courses. Which course is right for you? It depends on the service (or services) you want to offer!
Developmental Editing: Fiction Theory
What you need to know to help authors improve their novelsWant to help authors improve their novels? Developmental editing is for you. In this online course, you’ll learn how to assess an author’s manuscript and help them reshape it into something even stronger. 6 modules / 6h learning / £349
Developmental Editing: In Practice
How to conduct your professional service and work with clientsKnowing how a novel manuscript can be improved is one thing, but offering developmental editing as a professional service is another. In this course, you’ll learn how to conduct your service. 4 modules / 5h learning / £229
Tea and Commas: The Foundations of Line and Copy-Editing Fiction
What you need to know to offer sentence-level fiction editingLearn how to line and copy-edit fiction. We’ll look at the practical side of on-screen mark up as well as the nuances of what to change (and what not to change) in an author’s manuscript. 6 modules / 6h learning / £349
Coffee and Clauses: The Art of Line and Copy-Editing Fiction
How to edit sentences with discernment, skill and creative intelligenceThis course gives you the framework to work confidently at the sentence level, helping authors sharpen their prose without flattening their voice. 8 modules / 8h learning / £379
The Visible Editor
From brand foundations to live website – a step-by-step course for freelance editors.No amount of marketing your editorial business will help you find more (and better) clients if you don’t have the right foundations in place. Learn how to create a strong brand and professional website. 5 modules / £149
Liminal Letters
The newsletter that shares lessons and reflections on the art and business of editing.Course updates, special offers and honest opinions on the editing and publishing industry – plus insights into the life of a small business owner: how I juggle a toddler (not literally), limited hours and high ambitions while trying to cultivate meaningful work.
