Louise Harnby

Louise Harnby

Hemsby, England, United Kingdom
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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 Freelancers​and 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.

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Honors & Awards

  • Winner of 2017 Judith Butcher Award

    Society for Editors and Proofreaders

  • Nominated for 2015 Judith Butcher Award

    Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)

  • Essential Proofreading – distinction

    Publishing Training Centre

  • BA (Hons) Politics

    University of Portsmouth

  • Winner of Blog of the Year, Content Marketing Academy Awards 2019

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Organizations

  • Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)

    Advanced Professional Member

    - Present

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