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...
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...
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...