by Pat Dobie | Sep 26, 2025 | Business Talk, Editing Nuts & Bolts
In her book The Writer’s Advantage: A Toolkit for Mastering Your Genre, Laurie Scheer writes, “No idea on its own is great enough to sell without knowing the marketplace you’re selling it within.” Scheer’s advice applies to both writers and editors. The writer...
by Laura Sackton | May 9, 2025 | Finding Work, Inspiration
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by book reviewer Laura Sackton. I fell into reviewing books professionally a little by accident, and while I do enjoy it, I didn’t think it through when I first started. I just thought, “I love talking about books! What could...
by Pat Dobie | May 9, 2025 | Business Talk, Inspiration
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by editorial professional and EAA Instructor Pat Dobie. Editing can be thrilling? Yes! If you love books, love to read, and love to help writers, then developmental editing might be the perfect job for you. Year 0: What Is...
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...
by Pat Dobie | Dec 22, 2020 | Classes & Events, Editing Nuts & Bolts, News & Announcements
Updated: Sep 23, 2025 As a developmental editor of fiction for the last fifteen years, I’ve worked on over 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...
