by Pat Dobie | Sep 26, 2025 | Business Talk, Editing Nuts & Bolts
In her book The Writer’s Advantage: A Toolkit for Mastering Your Genre, Laurie Scheer writes, “No idea on its own is great enough to sell without knowing the marketplace you’re selling it within.” Scheer’s advice applies to both writers and editors. The writer...
by Susannah Noel | Jun 30, 2025 | Editing Nuts & Bolts, Quizzes
You know what likes to hang out in fiction and creative nonfiction? Numbers. Which is fine, except you have to know how to style them. Do you spell them out? Hyphenate? Capitalize? Eek – italicize? Good lord . . . what about decimals?? As the copyeditor or...
by Editorial Arts Academy | Feb 4, 2024 | Classes & Events, Editing Nuts & Bolts
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by editorial professional Nancy Marriott. In my 25+ years of freelance book editing, I’ve come across some difficult clients. From my experience with authors of nonfiction popular books, I’ve learned a few things. Not to...
by Editorial Arts Academy | Nov 27, 2022 | Business Talk, Editing Nuts & Bolts
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by editorial professional Brittany Dowdle. Accessibility in Publishing You’ve probably seen those childhood diaries with the heart-shaped lock and little golden key. If the goal is to keep people out of a book, these locks are...
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 | Jan 11, 2022 | Editing Nuts & Bolts
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by editorial professional Katherine Kirk. Hold on to your red pen! I’m about to show you how I become a highly efficient editing machine by combining: Macros Keyboard shortcuts TextExpander snippets Word add-ons My Favorite...
