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Fiction editing is an increasingly popular field, but one that can be daunting to a new editor or even an experienced editor who has only ever worked on nonfiction. This guide is aimed at copyeditors, whatever their experience, who want to know more about the nuts and bolts of fiction editing. It will also be useful to those who proofread fiction, to help understand what the editor should have considered. Getting Started in Fiction Editing exp...

If you're a self-employed editorial professional then you have to care about marketing if you want your business to thrive (or even just survive). This guide will help you to create a marketing plan that's tailored to your unique goals and circumstances. It covers:why marketing is important, even if you currently have enough clients how to identify and target your ideal clients what marketing methods to use, including websites, directories, so...

REVISED THIRD EDITION (2023) Proofreading and copyediting are professional services and no two projects are the same. Pricing editorial work is not like selling widgets at 'tuppence a bag', and it can be difficult for editorial professionals to know how to tailor quotations to meet their clients' needs. Pricing up a project involves four main elements:understanding what the particular job involves knowing your own pace of work knowing what c...

REVISED SECOND EDITION (2023) Includes a new section on the use of AI. Proofreading Theses and Dissertations introduces some of the basic principles of proofreading academic texts. In many respects, the work required is the same as for any other proofread - you check for errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar and consistency - but it is complicated by the fact that the thesis or dissertation must be the student's own work. The guide expl...

This guide is an introduction to editing textbooks. It is primarily aimed at editors who have some knowledge of the publishing world and of core editing skills, and who are interested in applying this knowledge to editing textbooks and other educational materials. This short guide covers:typical workflows and working practices involved in editing textbooks key questions to consider when development editing textbooks the main tasks and checks...

If you want to learn more about developmental editing of non-fiction resources, this guide is for you. It looks at the skills you need and describes practical approaches you can use, whether you are employed by a publisher or working on a freelance basis. Claire Beveridge is a developmental editor, copyeditor and writer who specialises in non-fiction. In this guide, she focuses on the process of getting a work of non-fiction into good order be...

If you work with text within a business or another type of organisation, then Editing for Communications Professionals is for you. The content you publish will represent the organisation you work for, so it's crucial to get it right. Cathy Tingle draws on years of experience working in-house as a communications professional, and subsequently as a freelance editor and editorial trainer. She shares strategies and tips for editing content from ...

FULLY REVISED SECOND EDITION including information on new developments such as IR35 and Making Tax Digital and many new and updated links to useful resources. CIEP members also have access to the Going Solo Toolkit, including a suite of spreadsheet tools to keep track of business records. Making the decision to go solo as a freelance proofreader or copyeditor is a big career step. This guide covers:business basics - writing a business plan and...

Editing recipes demands all the usual skills of a copyeditor or proofreader. But there are also conventions in good cookery and recipe writing that can mean the difference between success and failure in the kitchen. In this short guide, Wendy Hobson gathers her years of experience to explain the essentials of successful cookery editing, including:pitching it right - making sure the text is targeted to the skill level and knowledge of its inten...

Punctuation is an aspect of language where editors and proofreaders are constantly taking decisions, no matter what type of document they're working on. But how do they decide? This guide offers a reason-based approach to punctuation and its uses, to help achieve maximum clarity and consistency for the reader, including: what punctuation is, what it does and why we need it how the main punctuation marks are used in British English some lesser...

Every person has the right to choose the pronouns that align with their own sense of self. This has implications for fiction editors. Basing its examples on real works of fiction, the guide offers a wealth of options for working with gender-neutral pronouns. The guide includes:traditional and conscious-language approaches to pronouns different narrative viewpoint styles and why they matter how single- and multiple-pronoun universes work acknow...

A boom in book self-publishing has increased work for editors and opened a host of opportunities for them to develop services, with their range of skills and technical abilities, that self-publishers will want to pay for. This guide offers an overview of self-publishing and also drills down into more technical details for those who want to be aware of the issues self-publishers will face on the road to producing a professional book. This gui...

Developmental Editing for Fiction is for you if you want to find out more about the knowledge, skills and tasks required to developmental edit fiction. It provides:what you need to know in order to offer developmental editing as a service an overview of the different methods of developmental editing ideas on how to get started a comprehensive list of resources. It also covers different practical approaches to providing feedback on a manuscri...

Scientific research articles present complicated results and ideas. However, it is often the writing rather than the science that makes these articles difficult to read. Language editors can help scientists communicate their important findings clearly and effectively. This guide tells the editor all they need to know to help scientists navigate the publication process and get their research papers ready for publication. It explains how a res...