by Susannah Noel | Apr 2, 2020 | Business Talk, Editing Nuts & Bolts
If you’re a freelance book editor, or you’re training to be one, you need PerfectIt! In this post, Hilary Cadman shares why PerfectIt is such a powerful tool for editors. See the last paragraph for a link to Hilary’s PerfectIt training courses, which...
by Nancy Marriott | Jan 23, 2020 | Editing Nuts & Bolts
When I tell people I teach freelance book editing, I often get this response: “I love books, but I couldn’t be a book editor—I don’t know grammar well enough.” Or: “I can’t spell—I could never edit books.” Or: “I don’t have the skills to work directly with...
by Susannah Noel | Dec 3, 2019 | Editing Nuts & Bolts
If you’re considering a career as a freelance book editor, you’re probably wondering what type of editing is right for you. This is a question we often get from aspiring book editors. They’re interested in bringing their talent with words to the...
by Nancy Marriott | Nov 19, 2019 | Business Talk, Editing Nuts & Bolts
Do you love to read and wish you could spend your life with books? Do you find errors in books and wonder how they got there? Do you cringe at misplaced apostrophes and rail at undeveloped character arcs? If so, you may be a wordsmith who hasn’t reached your...
by Zora Vermilya | Aug 30, 2018 | Editing Nuts & Bolts, Inspiration
Editor’s note: Zora is our summer intern. In exchange for marketing and social media help, we’re teaching her about developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, and proofreading. Zora majors in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Editing is an...
by Susannah Noel | Jun 7, 2018 | Editing Nuts & Bolts
Most of my career, I’ve been a copyeditor for large NYC publishers, an intellectually stimulating but also somewhat straightforward task. It starts with this injunction: A copyeditor must never fix or improve the author’s style. (What is style? See Dave...
