Editor’s Blog
Minor Changes
Over the next few hours, I will be migrating this blog and my website to a WordPress.org site. This is purely for ease of management and is aimed to give authors a better overall service and allow them to add testimonial directly to the website. Social media...
Scammers Break The Kindle Store
Based on the weight of this article and other sources, I have cancelled my KU subscription and will not reinstate it until Amazon do something about these click farms. Source: Scammers Break The Kindle Store
11 Stages of Editing and Publishing
1. First draft. This is your raw manuscript complete with typos, grammar issues. I'm assuming here that you have already outlined by this point. If you haven't don't worry… yet. Suffice to say, this is not the version you want to send out to anybody especially not...
Starstruck | S. E. Anderson
I was privileged to be on the editing team for this. It was a joy to work on and can assure you a highly entertaining read.
5 good reasons not to trust your spell checker
Proofreading is more than a manual spell-check.
This is the last stage of editing prior to publication. It’s vital not to leave this stage to chance. It allows you to look for colour variations, layout issues, spacing, typeface consistency, missing items, tense and tone errors, content errors, inconsistent capitalisation, that page numbers are correct, and other formatting problems.
How to be a good client.
The point is that while we expect to get our money’s worth out of a service, a healthy business relationship is a two-way street. In light of this, here are a few things to bear in mind in order to not be ‘that’ customer.
Ethical practices
A good editor, treated well could last your entire writing career. Treat them badly and you could end up with a long list of people who simply will not work with you.
SfEP Membership Confirmed!
Yesterday my application to join the Society for Editors and Proofreaders was accepted…
An opportunity not to be missed!
The details can be found on Harry’s website. The weekend will stretch from the 25th to the 26th May 2017. Booking will only remain open until the end of February so do hurry.