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How to Get Editing Experience
When a new book editor is just learning developmental editing, I offer this advice for how to get editing experience. How to Get Editing Experience as a New Editor “I feel a little overwhelmed,” editing students tell me from time to time as they learn the craft. Mostly they’re worried that this means they’re not…
Finding (and Landing!) Indie Author Clients | Get Your First Editing Client | Getting Editorial Work from Book Publishers and Packagers | Starting Your Freelance Editing Business
How to Respond to Rejection Positively
I didn’t realize so many people did not know how to respond to rejection in a way that helped them to learn and grow from the experience. How to Respond to Rejection Positively I recently solicited proposals for a project, and what I found enlightening about the whole process was how badly most of the…
Using Partnerships to Expand Your Reach
Using partnerships to expand your reach is a successful way to grow your freelance editing business with a high ROI. My Best Ideas for Using Partnerships to Expand Your Reach One way to broaden your marketing reach is to work with other freelancers to mutually market your work. In other words, you can create a…
Stages of Learning How to Edit
As we learn the craft, we go through stages of learning how to edit—I’ve decided there are four stages. When you’re first learning how to edit, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the learning curve and to wonder when it would be realistic to start charging for your services. The answer is at Stage #3….
DE 3: Writing Effective Editorial Queries | DE craft | How to Write Query Letters, Synopses, and More!
Query Letter Basics
Both editors and authors need to learn query letter basics to help with the best possible chance of book publication. Query Letter Basics For Editors & Authors If your author-client is interested in trying to have their novel published by a traditional publisher, you may be asked to look at the author’s query letter (also…
Keys to Effective Manuscript Assessment
Here are my top tips for an effective manuscript assessment without having to read the entire manuscript to provide a quote. Use these questions to help you assess a manuscript in order to provide an editing quote—without having to read the entire manuscript first. In general, a developmental editor may be able to edit five-to-ten…
Finding (and Landing!) Indie Author Clients | Freelancing Through Tough Times | Getting Editorial Work from Book Publishers and Packagers
Make Money Fast as a Freelance Book Editor
It happens to all of us from time to time: work slows down, and we need to generate quick income. Note that this is not a blog post about how to start your business as a freelance book editor tomorrow and make fifty grand by Friday. That’s not gonna happen. Tips for How to Make…
Editorial Terms and Their Meanings
Here’s a rundown of basic editorial terms and their meanings to help you understand editing terminology. When I talk about the author’s work of addressing areas of concern, I call it revision to distinguish it from what an editor does, which is editing. Most people writing and speaking on the subject don’t distinguish between the two but since…
Beginning Line Editing for Fiction | Editorial Toolkit: Book Doctoring and Ghostwriting | Editorial Toolkit: Coaching Writers | Intermediate Line Editing for Fiction
Different Types of Editing
There are several different types of editing, and it’s very common for authors to be confused about what type of editing their manuscript needs. They’ll ask you to “edit” their ms. You think they mean development but they mean copyediting and they’re disappointed in your work. Or they’ll say they need someone to fix the…