by Nancy Marriott | Mar 10, 2021 | Business Talk, Editing Nuts & Bolts
For over twenty-five years, I’ve been a developmental editor of nonfiction. But recently, I’ve added “book coaching” to my editorial services. The shift came about when Dr. Kelly Brogan, a holistic psychiatrist with a bestseller under her belt, contacted me to help...
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by Susannah Noel | Jan 6, 2021 | Editing Nuts & Bolts
I think we can all agree, it’s fun to fix a spelling error, or a grammatical mistake, or a comma that should be a semicolon. Rooting out these distractions in the reading experience brings deep pleasure. If your responses on our Book Editor Profile Quiz indicate...
by Pat Dobie | Dec 22, 2020 | Classes & Events, Editing Nuts & Bolts, News & Announcements
As a developmental editor of fiction for the last decade, I’ve worked on almost 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 in other fields, such as...
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 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...
