Networking For Freelance Editors

Author : Brittany Dowdle,Linda Ruggeri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736420526

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Networking for Freelance Editors by Brittany Dowdle,Linda Ruggeri Pdf

Can we realistically network better?Though networking may seem like an unwieldy, overwhelming task, especially for freelancers, this practical workbook will show that building the network you need and want is completely within your power. Step by step, we will help you create a network that is uniquely yours, based on your goals, your personal communication style, and your everyday activities. This book is for editors, proofreaders, indexers, fact-checkers, translators, writers, and anyone else pursuing a freelance career in the publishing industry."Networking for Freelance Editors teaches you how to engage with others in ways that show rather than tell that you're ready to help, ready to engage, ready to talk, and ready to listen. The result is a targeted strategy that gets you noticed and frames you as an editor who's part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Dowdle and Ruggeri have created a truly outstanding how-to resource-one I highly recommend for any editor at any stage of their career. It's networking guidance that actually makes a difference. Read it and do it."-Louise Harnby, Fiction Editor and ProofreaderWhether you're early in your freelance editing career, an industry veteran transitioning to freelance work, or an experienced freelancer who wants to network with less stress and more to show for it, Networking for Freelance Editors will show you how toidentify and dismiss the stale, stress-inducing ideas about networking that are holding you back;discover an easy, incremental approach that gives you a foundation for building long-lasting professional relationships; andleverage your strengths to create a networking practice that gets results.By reimagining your approach to networking and using the worksheets provided with Networking for Freelance Editors, you'll build the network you need right now and also the one you can rely on tomorrow. Conquer impostor syndrome, wasted effort, and overwhelm, and grow the network you want-the one that provides support, connections, and opportunities.

Author : Kathy Ide
Publisher : Lighthouse Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1938499344

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Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors by Kathy Ide Pdf

Learn how best-selling authors proofread their manuscripts to avoid typos, inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and errors in punctuation, usage, grammar, and spelling. Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors, by professional freelance author, editor, and proofreader Kathy Ide, is the essential go-to tool for aspiring and experienced writers and editors. This book includes all of the material from Ide's popular Polishing the PUGS book (now out of print), with added PUGS guidelines and helpful tips from multi-published authors on how to catch typos and other common mistakes. In Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors, Kathy Ide identifies the industry-standard references for books, magazines, and newspapers (which are different from the guidelines for other types of writing, such as college term papers). Using these official references, she highlights the most common mistakes writers make in the areas of punctuation, usage, grammar, and spelling (for which she uses the acronym PUGS). She also includes guidelines from The Christian Writer's Manual of Style for authors and editors who work in the inspirational market.

Author : Erin Brenner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226833057

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The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors by Erin Brenner Pdf

The definitive guide to starting and running a freelance editing business. You’ve been thinking about shifting into the world of freelance editing, but you don’t know where to start. In a time when editors are seeking greater flexibility in their work arrangements and schedules, freelancing is an increasingly common career option. But deciding to go it alone means balancing the risks with the rewards. From the publisher of The Chicago Manual of Style comes The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors, the definitive guide to running your business and finding greater control and freedom in your work life. In this book, Erin Brenner—an industry leader and expert on the business of editorial freelancing—gathers everything you need to know into a single resource. Brenner has run her own successful editing business for over two decades and has helped hundreds of editors launch or improve their businesses through her teaching, blog writing, and coaching. The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors will walk you through the entire process of conceiving, launching, and working in a freelance editing business, from deciding on services and rates to choosing the best business structure to thinking through branding and marketing strategies and beyond. This book is ideal for beginning freelancers looking to get set up and land their first clients, but it’s equally valuable to those who have already been freelancing, with detailed coverage of such issues as handling difficult clients and continuing professional development. You’ll find a collection of advice from other successful freelance editors in this guide, as well as an extensive list of resources and tools. In the final and perhaps most important chapter, Brenner teaches you how to care for the key component of the business: yourself.

Author : Suzy Bills
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520381339

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The Freelance Editor's Handbook by Suzy Bills Pdf

"This book provides information that's relevant not only to editors who are new to freelancing but also to editors who've been freelancing for a while (even for decades) and want to refine their processes to make their businesses more enjoyable, efficient, and financially rewarding, whether freelance editing is a part-time or full-time career. The book covers topics such choosing a business entity, establishing a business mindset, marketing to ideal clients, creating a website, determining how to price services, developing a contract, maximizing productivity, achieving work/life balance, paying taxes, managing cash flow, choosing which types of insurance to buy, and saving for retirement"--

Author : Mary Embree
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781621535973

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Starting Your Career as a Freelance Editor by Mary Embree Pdf

If you've ever considered editing as a career, this book will help you on your new path. You’ll learn about the requirements in various fields, how to get started, the step-by-step facets of setting up and conducting your editing services, working with writers and publishers, promoting yourself and your expertise, and determining what to charge. In addition to books there are articles, dissertations, brochures, reports, abstracts, editorials, reviews, ad copy, and much more. There is more to making a living as a freelance editor than correct English usage, sentence structure, and grammatical construction. Here, you’ll learn what you need to know to decide on a specialty and how to manage the business side of your career.

Author : Louise Harnby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1301414115

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Business Planning for Editorial Freelancers by Louise Harnby Pdf

Are you thinking about starting a new editing or proofreading business? Written for those with no prior publishing or editorial experience, this practical guide takes new editorial freelancers, step by step, through the basics of planning their career. Chapters focus on why a business plan is necessary, the different aspects of editorial freelancing, training, client focus, getting experience, financial assessment, promotion, networking, tools for the job, and real-world case studies featuring new starters. Additional material includes tips from experienced practitioners that illustrate the tasks and learning goals discussed, as well as useful tools and resources. Published in association with The Publishing Training Centre.'This is exactly the book that would-be editorial freelancers need to read before setting up their businesses.' (Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS; KOK Edit)'If you're thinking of setting out on the journey to becoming a freelance editorial professional, make sure this is the first book you read.' (Hazel Harris, Wordstitch)'[E]ssential reading for anyone thinking of setting themselves up as a freelance editor.'(Jen Hamilton-Emery, Salt Publishing)'Helpful, hopeful, yet realistic about the challenges ahead, this book will leave its readers better informed, and therefore better prepared, for their entry into this highly competitive field.' (Madhubanti Bhattacharyya, Edward Elgar Publishing)

Author : Louise Harnby
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1484106210

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Business Planning for Editorial Freelancers by Louise Harnby Pdf

Are you thinking about starting a new editing or proofreading business? Written for those with no prior publishing or editorial experience, this practical guide takes new editorial freelancers, step by step, through the basics of planning their career. Chapters focus on why a business plan is necessary, the different aspects of editorial freelancing, training, client focus, getting experience, financial assessment, promotion, networking, tools for the job, and real-world case studies featuring new starters. Additional material includes tips from experienced practitioners that illustrate the tasks and learning goals discussed, as well as useful tools and resources. Published in association with the Publishing Training Centre. 'This is exactly the book that would-be editorial freelancers need to read before setting up their businesses.' (Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS; KOK Edit) 'If you're thinking of setting out on the journey to becoming a freelance editorial professional, make sure this is the first book you read.' (Hazel Harris, Wordstitch) 'Essential reading for anyone thinking of setting themselves up as a freelance editor.' (Jen Hamilton-Emery, Salt Publishing) 'Helpful, hopeful, yet realistic about the challenges ahead, this book will leave its readers better informed, and therefore better prepared, for their entry into this highly competitive field.' (Madhubanti Bhattacharyya, Edward Elgar Publishing)

Author : Carol Fisher Saller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780226734101

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The Subversive Copy Editor by Carol Fisher Saller Pdf

Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor standoff, wherein both parties refuse to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling: "This author is giving me a fit." "I wish that I could just DEMAND the use of the serial comma at all times." "My author wants his preface to come at the end of the book. This just seems ridiculous to me. I mean, it’s not a post-face." In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller casts aside this adversarial view and suggests new strategies for keeping the peace. Emphasizing habits of carefulness, transparency, and flexibility, she shows copy editors how to build an environment of trust and cooperation. One chapter takes on the difficult author; another speaks to writers themselves. Throughout, the focus is on serving the reader, even if it means breaking "rules" along the way. Saller’s own foibles and misadventures provide ample material: "I mess up all the time," she confesses. "It’s how I know things." Writers, Saller acknowledges, are only half the challenge, as copy editors can also make trouble for themselves. (Does any other book have an index entry that says "terrorists. See copy editors"?) The book includes helpful sections on e-mail etiquette, work-flow management, prioritizing, and organizing computer files. One chapter even addresses the special concerns of freelance editors. Saller’s emphasis on negotiation and flexibility will surprise many copy editors who have absorbed, along with the dos and don’ts of their stylebooks, an attitude that their way is the right way. In encouraging copy editors to banish their ignorance and disorganization, insecurities and compulsions, the Chicago Q&A presents itself as a kind of alter ego to the comparatively staid Manual of Style. In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller continues her mission with audacity and good humor.

Author : Suzanne Gilad
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781118051313

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Copyediting and Proofreading For Dummies by Suzanne Gilad Pdf

Turn your knack for language into a lucrative career Must-know techniques and resources for maximizing your accuracy and speed Interested in becoming a copyeditor or proofreader? Want to know more about what each job entails? This friendly guide helps you position yourself for success. Polish your skills, build a winning résumé and land the job you've always wanted. Books, magazines, Web sites, corporate documents - find out how to improve any type of publication and make yourself indispensable to writers, editors, and your boss. Balance between style and rules Master the art of the query Use proofreader symbols Edit and proof electronic documents Build a solid freelancing career

Author : Suzy Bills
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520381346

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The Freelance Editor's Handbook by Suzy Bills Pdf

A comprehensive guide to building and maintaining a sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable business as a freelance editor. According to LinkedIn, more than twenty thousand people in the United States list themselves as freelance editors. But many who have the requisite skills to be excellent editors lack the entrepreneurial skills needed to run a thriving, fulfilling business. The few resources available to freelance editors, new and established, are typically limited in scope and lack the strategic thinking needed to make a business flourish. The Freelance Editor’s Handbook provides a complete guide to setting up and running a prosperous freelancing business, from finding clients to increasing productivity, from deciding how to price services to achieving work/life balance, and from paying taxes to saving for retirement. Unlike most other books on freelance editing, this book is founded on a business-success mindset: The goal isn’t simply to eke out a living through freelancing. Rather, the goal is to establish a thriving, rewarding business that allows editors to achieve their career goals, earn a comfortable living, and still have time for family, friends, and personal pursuits. Author Suzy Bills identifies multiple strategies and methods that freelancers can apply, drawing on current research in entrepreneurship, psychology, and well-being. This book is the ultimate resource for editors at all levels: students just starting out, in-house staff looking to transition, and experienced freelancers who want to make their businesses more profitable and enjoyable.

Author : Joan Holders
Publisher : Self Publisher
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9791223000663

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Freelance Writing by Joan Holders Pdf

In a world where words wield immense power and creativity knows no bounds, the realm of freelance writing beckons with the promise of unlimited possibilities. Whether you dream of crafting compelling articles, weaving captivating stories, or penning persuasive marketing copy, the path to becoming a successful freelance writer begins with a journey of self-discovery and determination. This book is your comprehensive guide to navigating the exciting, yet challenging, landscape of freelancing with words. In the pages that follow, we embark on a transformative expedition, breaking down the intricate steps that will empower you to not only pursue your passion for writing but also transform it into a thriving business. As the digital age propels communication into new dimensions, the demand for skilled wordsmiths has reached unprecedented heights. Whether you are an aspiring wordsmith seeking to escape the confines of traditional employment or a seasoned professional aiming to take control of your destiny, this book is crafted to equip you with the knowledge, tools, and strategies needed to establish and flourish in your freelance writing venture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Editing
ISBN : 1987998006

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Editorial Niches by Anonim Pdf

Editorial Niches began as part of Editing Canadian English, 3rd edition - the style manual of the Editors' Association of Canada. However, to keep the print edition a manageable size and price, the sections on editorial roles and requirements (chapter 12) and editorial niches (chapter 13) have now been published as this companion volume, using the same chapter numbering to preserve the link with the online edition.Chapter 12 explores key roles and requirements for editors today:• Professional Editorial Standards (2009): the fundamentals of editing and standards for structural editing, stylistic editing, copy editing, and proofreading• professional development• fact checking• indexing• email etiquette• software for editorsChapter 13 delves into a wide variety of editorial niches:• online materials• books• corporations, not-for-profits, associations, and government• educational materials• academic materials• poetry, plays, and screenplays• cookbooks• magazines• science, technology, and medicine• visual materialsWhether you are a would-be, new or established editor, Editorial Niches offers a treasure trove of information by a team of seasoned editors who are experts in their field.

Author : Richard H. Adin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1434103722

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The Business of Editing by Richard H. Adin Pdf

Author : William Strunk Jr.
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781398833913

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The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. Pdf

First published in 1918, William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style is a guide to writing in American English. The boolk outlines eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of 57 "words often misspelled". A later edition, enhanced by E B White, was named by Time magazine in 2011 as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923.

Author : Christie Wilcox,Bethany Brookshire,Jason G. Goldman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780300221077

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Science Blogging by Christie Wilcox,Bethany Brookshire,Jason G. Goldman Pdf

Here is the essential how-to guide for communicating scientific research and discoveries online, ideal for journalists, researchers, and public information officers looking to reach a wide lay audience. Drawing on the cumulative experience of twenty-seven of the greatest minds in scientific communication, this invaluable handbook targets the specific questions and concerns of the scientific community, offering help in a wide range of digital areas, including blogging, creating podcasts, tweeting, and more. With step-by-step guidance and one-stop expertise, this is the book every scientist, science writer, and practitioner needs to approach the Wild West of the Web with knowledge and confidence.