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...
by Susannah Noel | Sep 14, 2021 | Business Talk, Editing Nuts & Bolts
Save 60% off our introductory, self-paced course, Freelance Book Editing 101. Sale ends September 30! 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...
