by Pat Dobie | Dec 22, 2020 | Classes & Events, Editing Nuts & Bolts, News & Announcements
Updated: Sep 23, 2025 As a developmental editor of fiction for the last fifteen years, I’ve worked on over two hundred novels in just about every genre of fiction, both literary and commercial. By chance, some of the writers I’ve worked with held day jobs as editors...
by Nancy Marriott | Aug 19, 2020 | Classes & Events, News & Announcements
Editor’s Note: This course is not currently open for registration, but we will likely reopen it in the later months of 2021. When I tell colleagues about my specialty of developmental and line editing for nonfiction books, I’m often asked, “But where do you...
by Nancy Marriott | Jun 15, 2020 | Classes & Events, Editing Nuts & Bolts, News & Announcements
When I started my career as a freelance book editor back in 1995, I was thrown into the deep end and had to figure out how to sink or swim. If I knew then what I know now, I could have had an easier time of it, and I certainly could have made a lot more money. Also, I...