You’ve written your book (or your business documentation), done all your groundwork, sorted out your budget and found an editor you’d like to work with. So what happens next? What can you expect from working with an editor? Every editor is different. Just as there are different types of editing, there are different ways…
Let’s admit it, it’s a big step hiring an editor. You’ve researched editors in your genre, you’ve sorted out your budget so it’s realistic and you have your manuscript in a Word document (or ten). After approaching a couple of professional editors you’ve found one you’d like to work with. What next? After an initial…
*update* Copy editors matter. Nothing has changed much since I wrote this article. In these days of AI everything, copy editors (and copyeditors, and proofreaders) do still matter. Read on to find out why … Yesterday copy editors on Twitter came out in solidarity with their colleagues in the New York Times. The paper is…