The Renegade Writer | If you loved the book, read the blog Structured Procrastination Telling it like it isn't — Marian Schembari Lady Scribes An Authentic Life Steven Pressfield Online Publication Coach - Free Articles Reading time: Less than 1 minute Is it worth hiring a professional proofreader? Here's my view, if your publication is going to be printed... I'm a big believer in the value of professional proofreaders. If you're reluctant to spend the money on one (currently somewhere between $35 and $50 per hour), let me tell you about the value they add. In addition to catching and fixing typos, they... Read More
Victoria's Advice Column Hi Victoria, I am a poet and the editor of a community journal of literature and visual art. We publish short prose and poetry, as well as the work of local artists. This is an annual, and we have just completed our twelfth journal. Hi, Judith! My work is both similar to and different from yours. Certainly, my background in editing technical manuals helps enormously with Copy Editing, as yours in editing law books must. However, the real work I do—Developmental Editing and Line Editing fiction and memoir—takes years to learn properly. I know there are, right now, almost as many aspiring editors hoping to break into freelance editing as there are aspiring writers hoping to break into publication. So your competition is enormous. I earned my reputation in freelance independent editing through four years of intensive blogging and editing. This was all was a ton of work, easily ten or more hours a day, five days a week, for four solid years. So that’s how I did it. I love my job.
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