Editor’s Blog

Emails and letters: make the right impression.

Emails and letters: make the right impression.

Hi all. In the last eighteen months, I have been proofreading and copyediting the business emails and letters of an ESL client. Not only is this proving to be hugely rewarding work (I love being helpful) but it's a service I am keen to extend to a wider audience. If...

The Importance of Booking Early…

The Importance of Booking Early…

I have put together an editing todo list for you. A printable pdf list will soon be available in the shop for £1.00. I will also advise here that you employ a different editor for every stage. The reason being is that an editor is human and they will also become over-familiar with the book. Best practice is to give each stage to a fresh pair of eyes.

Weekly Round-Up

Weekly Round-Up

This post has something for everyone. There are links to some great advice as well as some interesting news from PRH who plan to reward readers for their loyalty. I’ve also included some great book suggestions.

Tuesday Round Up | 22/01/2019

Tuesday Round Up | 22/01/2019

Good morning! Welcome to another Tuesday round-up. This week we have another great podcast from The Creative Penn (okay, total fangirl) discussing running a one-person business, the Kobo Writing Life talks about podcasting as content marketing., and the Writership...

Tuesday Round-up | 15/1/2018

Tuesday Round-up | 15/1/2018

My Tuesday round up was quite successful last week, so here’s another one. If any of you have blog posts or articles that you think would be useful for next week’s roundup, feel free to send me the links and I’ll give them a read.

Release Day!

Release Day!

‘My friend, if the story is written against you, what you need to do is—’
‘Change the story?’
‘I was thinking more like hunt down the author and gut him in front of his family, but your plan works too.’