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Storyscaping in the Realm of Book Editing

Melanie Saxton

Available on Amazon I’ve always loved storytelling, from the time I repeated fairy tales to my siblings to the time I began writing magazine editorials and editing books. A master’s degree in mass communication/digital media made sense because my self-publishing authors needed help in marketing their books.

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Exploring the Best Remote Freelance Jobs: 10 Places to Find Work

Make a Living Writing

Editing and proofreading Editing and proofreading are indispensable services for authors, publishers, businesses, and academics. from the Editorial Freelancers Association) to enhance your credibility. publishing, self-help). Remote editors polish written content by improving clarity, coherence, and overall quality.

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Cultural Writer — Gifts Beyond the Spa

Melanie Saxton

Article by Melanie Saxton Photography by Presley Daniel Originally published in The Woodlands City Lifestyle Imagine Mom’s expression when she receives something beyond the ordinary for Mother’s Day! You’ll conquer the concepts of centering, wedging, trimming, and how to glaze stoneware.

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Before You Hire a Developmental Editor: What You Need to Know

Jane Friedman

Today’s guest post is a Q&A by Sangeeta Mehta ( @sangeeta_editor ), a former acquiring editor of children’s books at Little, Brown and Simon & Schuster, who runs her own editorial services company. Where do editorial letters—better known in our field as “edit letters”—fit in?

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Just What Makes An Audiobook “Original”?

Publishing Trends

At last count, more than seventy-five thousand titles have been published, a number that will dramatically increase as AI narration brings cost and production time down. And S&S just published Kent Kruger’ s The Levee , a novella, as an original audiobook. billion by 2030 , and U.S.

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2023 Writing Contests You Should Consider Entering

Freelance Writing Jobs

Shooter Flash: Monthly Shooter Flash spotlights bitesize brilliance with one winning story each month, which we publish online (plus in an annual anthology) and trumpet on social media. Danuta Gleed’s first collection of short fiction, One of the Chosen, was posthumously published by BuschekBooks.

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The Nuts and Bolts of Becoming an Independent Editor

Jane Friedman

Some of the more common roles for an editor within this space are developmental editing, ghostwriting, coaching, cowriting, copy editing, proofreading, and marketplace assistance through the traditional or self-publishing avenue–but this is hardly an exhaustive list; when it comes to your suite of services, the possibilities are nearly endless.