Editing How-To and Self-Help Books

Editing How-To and Self-Help Books | Finding (and Landing!) Indie Author Clients | Getting Editorial Work from Book Publishers and Packagers | Starting Your Freelance Editing Business

How to Let Your Niche Find You
ByJennifer Lawler April 22, 2024April 16, 2024

One thing new editors often ask me is how to find their niche(s), and my short answer is to let your niche find you. How to Let Your Niche Find You I don’t want to be all zen and say your niches will find you, but that’s kind of true, or at least it has…

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Advanced Developmental Editing | DE 1 - 6: Developmental Editing for Fiction | Editing How-To and Self-Help Books

Why Providing Clear Guidance Matters for Editors
ByJennifer Lawler April 15, 2024April 8, 2024

In the Club Ed membership group, we were discussing a (published) how-to book aimed at writers. One of the editors mentioned how the information was presented in a confusing way and that this made it difficult for her to continue reading. Then she remarked, “My mind is generally in a state of burden.” I don’t…

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Editing How-To and Self-Help Books | Finding (and Landing!) Indie Author Clients

What Indie Authors Look for in Editors
ByJennifer Lawler March 28, 2024March 26, 2024

In order to attract the right kind of clients for you, you have to understand what indie authors look for in editors. Some authors want you to do all the work. (These are often nonfiction authors, but some novelists do this, too.) If you’ve identified a plot problem, they want you to rewrite the story…

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