by Editorial Arts Academy | Sep 27, 2022 | Editing Nuts & Bolts, Inspiration
Editor’s note: This is a Q&A with editorial professional Crystal Shelley. Crystal is the owner of Rabbit with a Red Pen, where she provides editing and authenticity reading services to fiction authors. Drawing on her background as a social worker, she unites...
by Editorial Arts Academy | Aug 29, 2022 | Finding Work, Inspiration
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by editorial professional Rachel Lapidow. Now that I’ve been a freelance copyeditor, proofreader, and developmental editor for six years, I’ve started to get more questions from current and aspiring copyeditors about how I...
by Editorial Arts Academy | Feb 10, 2022 | Finding Work, Inspiration
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by editorial professional Jenny DeBell. I recently completed the copyediting course at Editorial Arts Academy in order to build skills I’ve developed more or less informally, and to help clarify some of the differences between...
by Editorial Arts Academy | Nov 30, 2021 | Business Talk, Inspiration
Want to win a copy of Dreyer's English or the Stet! card game? Join our December giveaway! Editor’s note: This is a guest post by editorial professional Caitlin O’Brien. No matter how much you love freelance book editing, or any kind of editing, or how...
by Susannah Noel | Jun 12, 2020 | Business Talk, Inspiration
Freelance book editors have a place in the fight against racism. First, we’re human, and all humans must participate. Second, we are uniquely suited to recognize the influence words have on readers, populations, and entire societies. This gives us additional...
by Nancy Marriott | Nov 6, 2019 | Inspiration
“Book editor.” The mere mention conjures up an image of an exalted creature who sits in a corner office of a Manhattan publishing house, madly editing great piles of manuscripts in a quest to create bestsellers, à la Maxwell Perkins. Celebrity editor Maxwell Perkins...
