Right, let’s admit something right at the start. Talking to someone you don’t know, even if it’s by email, is scary (don’t even get me onto phone calls!). We always worry about seeming too formal/informal/pushy/weak/ignorant etc. It can be worse when the communication is about hiring someone – do you know enough to hire the…
The facts about editors Whenever the dreaded topic ‘what do you do for a living’ rears its ugly head, it’s time to take a deep breath. There are so many career myths out there, but being an editor has its own. Many people don’t actually know what we really do. The word editor either springs…
When you think about it, editing is a pretty strange occupation. People spend weeks, months, years writing something that is important to them. From a nugget of an idea a book is formed. The author writes… sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s hard and occasionally it can be painful. Writing is cathartic, inspirational, enlightening, tough, terrifying…