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How to check a novel with PerfectIt 5 and The Chicago Manual of Style
How to check a novel with PerfectIt 5 and The Chicago Manual of Style
By Louise Harnby
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Is worrying about the race to the bottom really worth your time?
Is worrying about the race to the bottom really worth your time?
By Louise Harnby
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Self-publishers: Proofreading is the last thing you need
Self-publishers: Proofreading is the last thing you need
By Louise Harnby
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Are proof-correction marks redundant? Not even close! Here's why proofreaders still need to learn traditional markup language. https://lnkd.in/dXXMAEY
Are proof-correction marks redundant? Not even close! Here's why proofreaders still need to learn traditional markup language. https://lnkd.in/dXXMAEY
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Here are some tips on how to show the emotions of non-viewpoint characters. https://lnkd.in/eNDqFC6F
Here are some tips on how to show the emotions of non-viewpoint characters. https://lnkd.in/eNDqFC6F
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Want some guidance on how to get editing and proofreading work? This topic page on my website is crammed with links to articles, booklets, books…
Want some guidance on how to get editing and proofreading work? This topic page on my website is crammed with links to articles, booklets, books…
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Experience
Education
Licenses & Certifications
Publications
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Fiction Editing Collection
This PDF collection offers editors and writers all 3 guides from the Transform Your Fiction series. Learn how to approach viewpoint, punctuation, and shown and told prose, and transform fiction with confidence. You save 10% on the standard price.
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Making Sense of ‘Show, Don’t Tell’
This fiction-editing guide helps editors and authors understand the differences between shown and told prose. Learn how to determine whether there are stylistic problems and how to craft solutions. The outcome is a stronger story and a more immersive reading experience.
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Business Skills Collection
This PDF collection gives editors all six guides from the Business Skills for Editors series but for the price of only five! Learn the foundations of content marketing, blogging, social media, branding, passive-income creation, and creating a pricing strategy.
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Editor Website Essentials (multimedia course)
This course teaches you how to craft a visible, loveable editorial website! The 10-step framework takes you through the essentials of SEO, navigation, structure, visitors, UX, branding, web page copy, home page design, content and analytics. By the time you're done, you'll know how to build an effective web presence.
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How to be Visible with Social Media
This business-skills guide shows editors and proofreaders how to use social media to increase online visibility, expand their audience, reinforce brand and generate leads ... without falling into a rabbit hole and without spending any money.
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How to Brand Your Editing Business
This business-skills guide shows editors and proofreaders how to build an emotion-based brand identity that’s rich in the flavour of you, and compelling to the people you'd love to work with. The framework is accessible for all editors, even those with no branding or marketing experience.
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How to Develop a Pricing Strategy
Panx Press
This business-skills guide teaches editors and proofreaders how to create a pricing strategy. The foundation is a healthy money mindset that focuses on your business needs, and a strategic framework that gives you the power and confidence to choose and stand up for your pricing decisions.
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How to Earn Passive Income
This business-skills guide shows editors and proofreaders how to develop additional and recurring income streams. Learn how to supplement your editing earnings by creating problem-solving products that customers will love to buy, and all using your existing knowledge base.
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Making Sense of Punctuation
This fiction-editing guide shows authors and editors how to use different types of punctuation in a novel. Move beyond publishing-industry conventions and learn how to play with punctuation so that your prose is clear but laced with mood and rhythm too.
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Making Sense of Point of View
This fiction-editing guide helps editors and authors understand the different narration styles in commercial fiction. Learn how to recognize viewpoint, and hold it, so that readers are immersed in your story and your characters' experiences of the world you've created.
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Editing Fiction at Sentence Level
Fiction is about flow, rhythm, mood, voice and style. This book shows you how to hone line craft so that the narrative and dialogue compel readers to turn the page.
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Switching to Fiction (multimedia course)
Want to switch to sentence-level fiction editing but not sure what else you need to know? This 4-step framework covers readability, narrative, dialogue, and technical correction and consistency. Includes a complementary copy of Editing Fiction at Sentence Level.
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To Visibility and Beyond (webinar)
Discover how to create reusable, knowledge-rich content that makes you visible online, compels ideal clients to hire you, and saves you time in your day-to-day editing work.
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Blogging for Business Growth (multimedia course)
Learn how to create a discoverable, captivating and memorable blog that drives website traffic, makes you visible in the search engines, and generates editing work.
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Branding for Business Growth (multimedia course)
This 9-step course shows you how to build an emotion-based brand identity that’s rich in the flavour of you, and compelling to the people you'd love to work with.
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10 Ways to Get Editing Work Quickly (webinar)
Is your editing cupboard bare? This webinar is for emergencies. It won't replace a long-term marketing strategy but it will help you out of a fix and secure clients fast.
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Social Media for Business Growth (multimedia course)
Discover how to create a purposeful social media strategy that increases your online visibility, expands your audience, reinforces your brand, and generates work leads.
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How to do Content Marketing
This business-skills guide shows editors and proofreaders how to create and deliver valuable, problem-solving content that enhances editorial business visibility, reinforces brand, and maximizes choice over whom we work for and what we earn – and all within a framework that embraces engagement with colleagues and clients.
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Business Planning and Marketing Collection
This PDF collection includes all of the content from Business Planning for Editorial Freelancersand Marketing Your Editing & Proofreading Business, plus 42 chapters of additional material.
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Marketing Your Editing and Proofreading Business
Louise Harnby
For any editorial freelancer who feels that marketing is their Achilles’ heel. Discover why marketing needn't be difficult, overwhelming or boring. Then learn the core principles of developing and implementing an effective marketing strategy that will get you noticed and generate business leads.
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Business Planning for Editorial Freelancers: A guide for new starters
Louise Harnby
This book is for those with no prior publishing or editorial experience. The practical guide takes new proofreaders and editors, step by step, through the basics of planning their career.
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How to Build an Editorial Blog
07/01/2020
This business-skills guide shows editors and proofreaders, step by step, how to create a captivating blog-based content platform that drives traffic to your website, makes you visible in the search engines, and adds value for your clients-to-be.
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How to Write the Perfect Fiction Editorial Report (multimedia course)
Forthcoming in 2020
Learn how to craft engaging sentence-level editorial reports that are comprehensive, critical, constructive, and loved by your fiction clients.
Honors & Awards
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Winner of 2017 Judith Butcher Award
Society for Editors and Proofreaders
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Nominated for 2015 Judith Butcher Award
Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)
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Essential Proofreading – distinction
Publishing Training Centre
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BA (Hons) Politics
University of Portsmouth
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Winner of Blog of the Year, Content Marketing Academy Awards 2019
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Organizations
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Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)
Advanced Professional Member
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Not sure where to hyphenate? Here's how to check that your end-of-line word-breaks are sensitive and clear when proofreading. https://lnkd.in/d5_ZZwN
Not sure where to hyphenate? Here's how to check that your end-of-line word-breaks are sensitive and clear when proofreading. https://lnkd.in/d5_ZZwN
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On The Editing Podcast: In this episode, we have some Word formatting tips that will help save you time! https://lnkd.in/e63PEYDE
On The Editing Podcast: In this episode, we have some Word formatting tips that will help save you time! https://lnkd.in/e63PEYDE
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In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise and Denise talk about editing short-form content such as newsletters, letters, blog posts, short…
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise and Denise talk about editing short-form content such as newsletters, letters, blog posts, short…
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Here's a little something for you! Read the first two chapters of Marketing Your Editing and Proofreading Business absolutely free. 👉👉…
Here's a little something for you! Read the first two chapters of Marketing Your Editing and Proofreading Business absolutely free. 👉👉…
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Proofreading designed page proofs: Here are the knock-on effects you need to watch out for. https://lnkd.in/efiEbE4x
Proofreading designed page proofs: Here are the knock-on effects you need to watch out for. https://lnkd.in/efiEbE4x
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The 7 goals of a standout editorial report, and why it's worth paying attention to them. https://lnkd.in/dfeiUyg
The 7 goals of a standout editorial report, and why it's worth paying attention to them. https://lnkd.in/dfeiUyg
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Fancy getting lifetime access to some free editorial training? With no catch? Of course you do! https://lnkd.in/e9DDibMz
Fancy getting lifetime access to some free editorial training? With no catch? Of course you do! https://lnkd.in/e9DDibMz
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On The Editing Podcast: In this episode, we chat about all the different ways to use en dashes. https://lnkd.in/exKVYsgQ
On The Editing Podcast: In this episode, we chat about all the different ways to use en dashes. https://lnkd.in/exKVYsgQ
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Here are 52 free business tools to make your editing and writing life a little sweeter! https://lnkd.in/ebkRBVnV
Here are 52 free business tools to make your editing and writing life a little sweeter! https://lnkd.in/ebkRBVnV
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Is your viewpoint character out for the count? Here are 5 ways to unveil action affecting them! 😵😴 Read more here. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eDnUPKUc
Is your viewpoint character out for the count? Here are 5 ways to unveil action affecting them! 😵😴 Read more here. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eDnUPKUc
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Do you know what an HEA is? Find out about this and more on romance editing with Sarah Calfee! Listen to the episode here! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eE4RS43R
Do you know what an HEA is? Find out about this and more on romance editing with Sarah Calfee! Listen to the episode here! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eE4RS43R
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World-building wikis for fiction writers, and why creating one might save you time and consistency slips. https://lnkd.in/dDBpNbz
World-building wikis for fiction writers, and why creating one might save you time and consistency slips. https://lnkd.in/dDBpNbz
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Here are 6 tips that will help emerging indie authors make informed decisions about their editing and writing process. Read the post here! 👉…
Here are 6 tips that will help emerging indie authors make informed decisions about their editing and writing process. Read the post here! 👉…
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What is flash fiction and what can it teach us? I've done a bit myself, and learned a ton! https://lnkd.in/dQDXnU8
What is flash fiction and what can it teach us? I've done a bit myself, and learned a ton! https://lnkd.in/dQDXnU8
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Not sure what kind of editing you need? Here's some guidance for self-publishers. https://lnkd.in/eHhaJd4h
Not sure what kind of editing you need? Here's some guidance for self-publishers. https://lnkd.in/eHhaJd4h
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