by Susannah Noel | Jun 15, 2025 | Classes & Events
What’s the best way to learn how to edit a book? You can take editing classes. You can read books and style manuals. You can learn on the job. You can get an editing certificate. Or you can do all of the above! But no matter how you learn how to edit, practice is...
by Editorial Arts Academy | Feb 3, 2023 | Business Talk, Inspiration
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by editorial professional Molly Rookwood. LitHub recently published an article purportedly written by a copyeditor who argued, confoundingly, against copyediting. “Against Copyediting: Is It Time to Abolish the Department of...
by Susannah Noel | Jul 27, 2021 | Business Talk, Finding Work
Did you know there are 7 editorial roles? Learn where you fit in with our free Book Editor Profile quiz. Traditional trade publishing is, once again, changing. On May 10, 2021, HarperCollins absorbed Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and the Boston-based publisher was drawn...
by Sheryl Rapée-Adams | May 3, 2021 | Business Talk
I just took the exciting step of becoming an LLC, or Limited Liability Company. I’m now in the Vermont Secretary of State’s registry under Sheryl Rapée-Adams Copyediting, LLC, dba Cat’s Eye Copyediting. It took a week, a lawyer, and $600 to transform my side hustle...
by Susannah Noel | Mar 8, 2021 | Classes & Events, News & Announcements
In the early 1990s, my lifelong fascination with language rules was transformed into a rewarding side hustle copyediting academic journals. Over time, I took on projects with trade publishers and began editing fiction and nonfiction books. My other careers waxed and...
