by Editorial Arts Academy | Aug 21, 2023 | Business Talk, Finding Work, News & Announcements
Editor’s Note: This post was written by social media professional and editor Jamie Johnson, an account manager at Officially Social. In recent years, social media has changed the landscape of the writing industry, paving the way for freelance book editors...
by Susannah Noel | Mar 8, 2021 | Classes & Events, News & Announcements
In the early 1990s, my lifelong fascination with language rules was transformed into a rewarding side hustle copyediting academic journals. Over time, I took on projects with trade publishers and began editing fiction and nonfiction books. My other careers waxed and...
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...
by Nancy Marriott | Oct 29, 2019 | Business Talk, News & Announcements
One of the fastest ways to learn about the field of freelance editing is to attend a regional or national conference. This summer, Susannah and I did just that. Gathering with over two hundred freelance editors, writers, indexers, translators, and other editorial...
