I’m on Maternity Leave!
I started my editing business over ten years ago. This is the first time I’ve ever taken some extended time away from it. Which feels ...
Read moreI started my editing business over ten years ago. This is the first time I’ve ever taken some extended time away from it. Which feels weird. Lots of people go freelance because they’ve had children and they need the flexibility. Instead, I went freelance simpl...
Read moreI started my editing business over ten years ago. This is the first time I’ve ever taken some extended time away from it. Which feels ...
Read moreLet’s talk about the pesky little words ‘or’ and ‘nor’. Some simple guidelines will help you use these words correctly, but the gramma...
Read moreWhen a character tells another character something they obviously already know, this is known as ‘As you know, Bob’ dialogue, and it c...
Read moreBeing a freelance novel editor isn’t just about sprucing up sentences, fixing wonky grammar and annihilating typos. Nope! There’s a wh...
Read moreI got together with a small group of freelance developmental fiction editors, all of us at about the same point in our careers. We cos...
Read moreThere’s no one set way for an editor to conduct a developmental edit, and therefore how long one takes will vary widely from editor to...
Read moreA bout of Covid has slowed me down this December, but I still managed to spend some time reflecting on my last year of business and pl...
Read moreIt’s that time of year again! Time to wind down, reflect on the year gone by and make plans for the year ahead. I’m going ...
Read moreAuthors are on a hero’s journey. Their quest? To write and publish novels. Editors are the mentors who aid those heroes. And here’s wh...
Read moreAccording to psychologist Carl Jung, the persona is the mask we wear in public. It can be assumed both deliberately and unconsciously....
Read moreEssentially, no – you don’t need experience working in-house for a publisher to become a freelance editor. Different editorial roles F...
Read moreRecently, an author planning to self-publish his book asked me if I recommend he use a book-publishing packager. After explaining why ...
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