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 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 | Aug 12, 2023 | Classes & Events, Finding Work
Do any of these apply to you? You’re starting out as a freelance book editor, and you don’t know where to find your first few clients. You’ve been editing for a while, but you’re now languishing in the dreaded “feast or famine”...
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 | Nov 30, 2021 | Business Talk, Inspiration
Want to win a copy of Dreyer's English or the Stet! card game? Join our December giveaway! Editor’s note: This is a guest post by editorial professional Caitlin O’Brien. No matter how much you love freelance book editing, or any kind of editing, or how...
