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 Editorial Arts Academy | Feb 10, 2022 | Finding Work, Inspiration
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by editorial professional Jenny DeBell. I recently completed the copyediting course at Editorial Arts Academy in order to build skills I’ve developed more or less informally, and to help clarify some of the differences between...
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 Susannah Noel | Jun 7, 2018 | Editing Nuts & Bolts
Most of my career, I’ve been a copyeditor for large NYC publishers, an intellectually stimulating but also somewhat straightforward task. It starts with this injunction: A copyeditor must never fix or improve the author’s style. (What is style? See Dave...
