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 novels

Want 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 / £299

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Developmental Editing: In Practice

How to conduct your professional service and work with clients

Knowing 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 / £199

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Tea and Commas: The Foundations of Line and Copy-Editing Fiction

What you need to know to offer sentence-level fiction editing

Learn 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 / £299

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The Visible Editor

Create a brand and website that gets you noticed

A self-paced online course. 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.

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