Outside or inside, before or after? Punctuating quotes can be a bit of a minefield, as Luke Finley points out. A quick search on the SfEP forums reveals that punctuating quotes is an area that trips many of us up – and not just those with less experience. This isn’t a surprise, because there’s extensive […]
By Howard Walwyn Like other things that are not universally loved but keep coming back – general elections and the X Factor – readability metrics don’t seem to be going away. There are people out there who like general elections and the X Factor. And there are people out there who like readability metrics. But […]
Carrie O’Grady A couple of years ago, I sat down with some of my fellow fiction editors for coffee and a chat. One looked particularly brow-beaten. ‘I’m really stumped on this structural edit of the latest in the Two-Dimensional Murders series,’ she confessed. ‘The author has Miss Scarlet committing the crime in the billiard room […]
When I began freelance editing, in 2008, I was living in West Yorkshire, and I benefited greatly from attending meetings of the West Yorkshire SfEP group, run by the ever helpful Helen Stevens. A couple of years later I moved back to my home town of Liverpool and continued freelancing, steadily building up my business. […]
By Luke Finley and Laura Ripper This is a fully collaborative effort, but Laura did more of the research and organisation and Luke more of the writing up, so when ‘I’ is used it refers to Luke. Anything in quotes was contributed by others in one of the many discussions we started on this subject. […]
Once you have started your editorial business, and engaged those precious first clients, it’s necessary consider ways to keep the momentum going through the first few years, and take your business to the next level. As with getting started, there are as many different ways of building sustainability into an editorial business as there are […]