Today I’m talking specifically to my fellow freelance editors, but everyone else is welcome to eavesdrop. Accepting a new editing client is a lot like dating, so I’m going to give you some tips today to keep it safe, fun and profitable. Oops, that part isn’t like dating.
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When to Take (or Not Take) on a New Editing Client
Posted in General, Writing Life, tagged editing, manuscripts, writing workshops on February 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Fantastic Write On! Workshop Cincy Style
Posted in General, Writing Life, tagged contracts and copyrights, editing, fiction, get published, manuscripts, marketing, My books, nonfiction, self-published book, Speaking engagements, Stephen Gillen, traditional publishing, Valerie J. Lewis Coleman, Write On! Workshop, writing class, writing workshops on January 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to everyone who came to the Write On! Workshop Cincy Style yesterday. Judging from the evaluations, and speaking for Val and me, a great time was had by all! And didn’t Colleen Zuber at the Refuge Coffee Bar serve us a great lunch? Steve Gillen’s presentation on Copyrights and Contracts (and all the extra [...]
Writing Workshop Workshop: A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Critiquing (Dec. 18 at 1:30 p.m.)
Posted in General, Writing Life, tagged critique, editing, get published, manuscripts, writing workshops on October 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This month’s “Writing Workshop Workshop” will be held Sunday, October 9, at 2 p.m. We have a new location, which I think will work well for us: Olive’s in Clifton. (That building has been many things. The last restaurant in that place was Uno’s. It is also known as the Ludlow Garage.)
Two X Chromosomes Do Not (Necessarily) an Editor Make
Posted in Writing Life, tagged editing, punctuation, self-published book, style guides on August 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’m about to conclude another year as a judge in the Writer’s Digest Self-Published Competition. As always, I find myself thinking over and over: “Oh, this book could have been so good if only the author had hired an editor.”
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