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Editorial project managers make publications happen, taking raw content through quality control and design processes to produce a finished product. Editorial Project Management outlines the key concepts of editorial project management, including briefing, scheduling and budgeting. It highlights the importance of communication, and other soft skills, in guiding a project through its production while meeting stakeholders' requirements and getting the best out of suppliers.This guide is for you if:you want to know what editorial project management isyou are thinking about adding editorial project management to your skillsetyou are considering taking on editorial project management responsibilities.

Fiction editing is an increasingly popular field, but one that can be daunting to a new editor or even an experienced editor who has only ever worked on nonfiction. This guide is aimed at copyeditors, whatever their experience, who want to know more about the nuts and bolts of fiction editing. It will also be useful to those who proofread fiction, to help understand what the editor should have considered.Getting Started in Fiction Editing explains how to work with both publishers and independent authors and examines how their needs might differ. It also explores the various types of editing that a fiction manuscript might need, as well as what editors need to be aware of, such as continuity, the importance of style sheets and the risks of over-correction. The guide concludes with a list of resources for further reading and a glossary of fiction terms.

If you're a self-employed editorial professional then you have to care about marketing if you want your business to thrive (or even just survive). This guide will help you to create a marketing plan that's tailored to your unique goals and circumstances. It covers:why marketing is important, even if you currently have enough clientshow to identify and target your ideal clientswhat marketing methods to use, including websites, directories, social media, cold calling and more.This guide includes valuable advice for those who are just starting out as well as for those who are more experienced. It will inspire and encourage you to get out there and promote yourself and your editorial business.

REVISED THIRD EDITION (2023)Proofreading and copyediting are professional services and no two projects are the same. Pricing editorial work is not like selling widgets at 'tuppence a bag', and it can be difficult for editorial professionals to know how to tailor quotations to meet their clients' needs. Pricing up a project involves four main elements:understanding what the particular job involvesknowing your own pace of workknowing what can go wrongknowing the market rate for the work.Pricing a Project describes the quotation process, from taking a brief to agreeing terms and conditions. Its advice is applicable to all types of editorial work - from simple proofreading, through copyediting and substantive editing of books, journals and other materials, to estimating the workload involved in website editing and tendering for complex contracts. It comprises tips, checklists and worked examples, plus other sources of information and guidance.

REVISED SECOND EDITION (2023)Includes a new section on the use of AI.Proofreading Theses and Dissertations introduces some of the basic principles of proofreading academic texts. In many respects, the work required is the same as for any other proofread - you check for errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar and consistency - but it is complicated by the fact that the thesis or dissertation must be the student's own work.The guide explores the nature of this type of proofreading as well as the practicalities of how to get work, calculating fees and negotiating with students. It then deals with potentially thorny ethical issues such as what to do with possible plagiarism, how you should approach the use of AI, and how much to query, intervene in or change the student's writing.

This guide is an introduction to editing textbooks. It is primarily aimed at editors who have some knowledge of the publishing world and of coreediting skills, and who are interested in applying this knowledge to editing textbooks and other educational materials.This short guide covers:typical workflows and working practices involved in editing textbookskey questions to consider when development editing textbooksthe main tasks and checks to complete when copyediting textbooksadvice on how to work well with publishers, packagers and authors.¿This practical guide will provide you with a clear understanding of how educational publishing works and help increase your confidence when editing educational resources.

If you want to learn more about developmental editing of non-fiction resources, this guide is for you. It looks at the skills you need and describes practical approaches you can use, whether you are employed by a publisher or working on a freelance basis.Claire Beveridge is a developmental editor, copyeditor and writer who specialises in non-fiction. In this guide, she focuses on the process of getting a work of non-fiction into good order before it moves on to the copyediting phase.The main purpose of developmental editing is to help the author clarify their message and deliver it to the intended audience effectively. This guide introduces the key things you need to consider along the way.

If you work with text within a business or another type of organisation, then Editing for Communications Professionals is for you. The content you publish will represent the organisation you work for, so it's crucial to get it right.Cathy Tingle draws on years of experience working in-house as a communications professional, and subsequently as a freelance editor and editorial trainer. She shares strategies and tips for editing content from start to finish, to get it ready for design and layout.This guide is designed to help you approach your text like a professional editor. There is a world of established editorial practice out there, and learning more about it will help you improve your communications.

Developmental Editing for Fiction is for you if you want to find out more about the knowledge, skills and tasks required to developmental edit fiction. It provides:what you need to know in order to offer developmental editing as a servicean overview of the different methods of developmental editingideas on how to get starteda comprehensive list of resources.It also covers different practical approaches to providing feedback on a manuscript so that you can help an author redraft their book to better reach its potential.

A boom in book self-publishing has increased work for editors and opened a host of opportunities for them to develop services, with their range of skills and technical abilities, that self-publishers will want to pay for. This guide offers an overview of self-publishing and also drills down into more technical details for those who want to be aware of the issues self-publishers will face on the road to producing a professional book.This guide is for you if you want to develop your support of self-publishing authors, in fiction or non-fiction. There are many aspects of the process that, as a practising editor, you may never need, or want, to deal with, but knowing how they work will help you assess a client's assumptions, answer their questions and be of service in guiding them towards a professional self-publication.

Every person has the right to choose the pronouns that align with their own sense of self. This has implications for fiction editors. Basing its examples on real works of fiction, the guide offers a wealth of options for working with gender-neutral pronouns.The guide includes:traditional and conscious-language approaches to pronounsdifferent narrative viewpoint styles and why they matterhow single- and multiple-pronoun universes workacknowledging gender identity without pronounsa comprehensive list of third-person gender-neutral pronounshow much explanation writers should give about the pronouns they've used.

Punctuation is an aspect of language where editors and proofreaders are constantly taking decisions, no matter what type of document they're working on. But how do they decide? This guide offers a reason-based approach to punctuation and its uses, to help achieve maximum clarity and consistency for the reader, including:what punctuation is, what it does and why we need ithow the main punctuation marks are used in British Englishsome lesser-known marks and notes on US punctuationan informed, long-term perspective on how punctuation has changed, is changing and will go on changinguseful resources to take you forward in your learninga handy glossary covering language-, grammar- and punctuation-based words and terms.Over 100 real-life examples help to build your understanding. Snippets of punctuation history and trivia keep things fun. Whether you need help with hyphens or confidence with commas, or want to find out what curly braces do, you'll find a wealth of knowledge and insight into punctuation here, and some ideas you may never even have considered before.

Scientific research articles present complicated results and ideas. However, it is often the writing rather than the science that makes these articles difficult to read. Language editors can help scientists communicate their important findings clearly and effectively.This guide tells the editor all they need to know to help scientists navigate the publication process and get their research papers ready for publication. It explains how a research article should be structured and gives a step-by-step guide to editing each section, including tables and figures. The elements of scientific style are also explained together with common problems the editor may encounter and how to solve them.