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LGBTQ+ editing is the topic. Nick Taylor is the expert! Join Nick, Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle on The Editing Podcast.
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Check out these additional resources that will help you develop your fiction-editing business.
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Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
- Get in touch: Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader
- Connect: Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, Facebook and LinkedIn
- Learn: Books and courses
- Discover: Resources for authors and editors
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Even if you don't specialize in your editorial practice, it's still worth using the language of specialism in your marketing. That's what Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle are chatting about in this episode of The Editing Podcast.
Listen to find out more about ...
- The different ways in which we might specialize
- Helping clients understand how we can help them
- What does the client want to know?
- Why saying we can edit 'everything' is a weak message
- Why the language of specialization is interesting
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Discover more ways to get noticed by your ideal clients with this toolbox of resources:
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Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
- Get in touch: Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader
- Connect: Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, Facebook and LinkedIn
- Learn: Books and courses
- Discover: Resources for authors and editors
Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle talk about two more zombie rules that have no place in a professional editor's toolbox.
Listen to find out more about ...
- What a zombie rule is
- The power of a double negative in rich narrative and dialogue
- Why singular 'they' is a grammatically correct gender-neutral pronoun
Mentioned in the show
- Welcome, singular “they”: Lee, C. (2019, October 31). Welcome, singular “they”. APA Style. http://apastyle.apa.org/blog/singular-they
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Learn about how to use grammar and punctuation to amplify prose rather than butchering it with a rule book.
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Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
- Get in touch: Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader
- Connect: Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, Facebook and LinkedIn
- Learn: Books and courses
- Discover: Resources for authors and editors
Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle share 3 more tips about how to beat the overwhelm that can come with making your editing and proofreading business visible.
Listen to find out more about ...
- Why everyone has something to shout about, even if they think they don't
- Why some editors appear to do more marketing that is humanly possible, and why that shouldn't deter you
- The tricks those busy editorial marketers have up their sleeve and how you can mimic them
- Managing marketing by thinking in ones
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'Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Marketing can be learned! Here are some of my most popular teaching tools, all created specifically for editors and proofreaders working in a global freelance market.
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Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
- Get in touch: Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader
- Connect: Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, Facebook and LinkedIn
- Learn: Books and courses
- Discover: Resources for authors and editors
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle talk to Rich Leder about writing screenplays and novels. Rich has worked with some of the biggest names in the movie industry. He shares what he's learned about Hollywood, TV and novel craft.
Listen to find out more about
- The differences between writing a screenplay and novel from scratch
- Cooking for Cannibals: Being edited and receiving feedback
- Converting film to novel, or novel to film
- Primal, and why Nicolas Cage makes the perfect Frank Walsh
- Stage direction during the screenplay-writing stage
- Character descriptions, noise and environment, and writing a screenplay
- How does the editing process differ for screenplays and novels?
- How much is the author involved in the making of the movie?
- How long does it take to get a movie made? From treatment to option to production
- Impactful career moments, including how working with Sidney Poitier changed his life
Rich has been a working writer for more than three decades. His credits include 19 produced movies—television films for CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark and feature films for Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Longridge Productions, and Left Bank Films—and six novels for Laugh Riot Press.
He’s been the lead singer in a Detroit rock band, a restaurateur, a Little League coach, an indie film director, a literacy tutor, a magazine editor, a screenwriting coach, a wedding guru, a PTA board member, a commercial real estate agent, and a visiting artist for the UNCW Film Studies Department, among other things, all of which, it turns out, was grist for the mill.
He resides on the North Carolina coast with his awesome wife, Lulu, and is sustained by the visits home of their three fabulous children.
Music Credit
'Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle talk about editing short-form content such as newsletters, letters, blog posts, short stories, essays and reports.
Listen to find out more about
- The different types of content that fall into the short-form category
- The benefits and challenges of short-form content editing
- Advice on the remit: client expectations, the brief, ethical issues and practical responsibilities
- Consistency and style
- Scheduling issues
- Pricing
- Marketing
Music Credit
'Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle talk about accountability groups, and how they can help editors and other freelance editorial professionals emotionally and practically.
Listen to find out more about
- Taking plans beyond the planning stage
- How an accountability group can help you
- How you set one up.
- How many people to include in a group
- How often an accountability group meets
- Online or in-person works
- How long a meeting should be
- What tools are useful
- What you might contribute
- Accountability and what can go wrong
Music Credit
'Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle talk to editor Crystal Shelley about sensitivity reading.
Listen to find out more about
- What is sensitivity reading?
- What types of topics do people read for?
- What does the sensitivity reading process look like?
- Why should an author hire a sensitivity reader?
- What type of feedback does a sensitivity reader give?
- How does someone become a sensitivity reader?
- Some authors are hesitant to work with a sensitivity reader because there's concern about censorship or having books pulled. How do you address those concerns?
- Is sensitivity reading only useful for fiction?
- How do authors find sensitivity readers?
Discover more about Crystal at Rabbit with a Red Pen.
Mentioned in the show
- Find a sensitivity reader: Binders for Sensitivity Readers
- Conscious Style Guide
- Editors of Color
Music Credit
'Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
The Editing Podcast, Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle discuss marketing for editors and proofreaders, and offer 3 tips on how to overcome the fear.
Listen to find out more about
- Giving yourself permission to be an imperfect marketer
- Concentrating on your own marketing rather than comparing yourself with everyone else
- Following your own path and developing a strategy that’s appropriate for you, even if other people are doing things differently
Dig into these related resources
- Book: Marketing Your Editing and Proofreading Business
- Books: Business Skills for Editors series
- Blog and booklet: Overcoming marketing paralysis: How to turn overwhelm into action
- Podcast collection: Editorial business tips
- Blog: 2 business mindset tips for new editors
- Blog: Why you MUST market your editorial business. Part I
- Blog: Why you MUST market your editorial business. Part II
Music Credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle talk to thriller writer Andy Maslen about the creative-writing process.
Listen to find out more about
- Writing a series vs standalone novels
- Tips on developing a coherent series
- Starting afresh with a new set of characters in a new environment
- Top creative-writing tips for beginner author
- Recommended writing-craft resources
- Back-cover blurb and Amazon blurbs
- Cover design
Here's where you can find out more about Andy Maslen's thrillers.
Dig into these related resources
- Author resources
- Book: Editing Fiction at Sentence Level
- Blog post: 3 reasons to use free indirect speech in your crime fiction
- Blog post: Crime fiction subgenres: Where does your novel fit?
- Blog post: How to write dialogue that pops
- Blog post: Playing with sentence length in crime fiction. Is it time to trim the fat?
- Blog post: Writing a crime novel – should you plan or go with the flow?
- Podcast episodes: The indie author collection
Music Credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle talk to author David Unger about transforming a novel from print to audio.
Listen to find out more about
- Doing your own narration vs hiring a pro
- How to find a professional voice artist
- Which qualities are important
- The process of working with a professional narrator
- Obstacles to creating audio books
- Costs and time frame
Here's where you can find out more about David Unger's books.
Dig into these related resources
- Author resources
- Book: Editing Fiction at Sentence Level
- The Editing Podcast: 6 ways to use audio for book promotion
- Booklet: How to narrate your own audio book
- Podcast episodes: The indie author collection
- Blog post: Why editors and proofreaders should be using audio
- Blog post: 5 ways to use audio for book marketing and reader engagement
- Blog post: How to go mobile with audio: Book-editor podcasting on the go
Music Credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle talk to mystery writer David Unger about story creation and revision.
Listen to find out more about
- What made David want to start writing and who inspired him
- Writing an alter ego
- The revision process
- On being edited
Here's where you can find out more about David Unger's books.
Dig into these related resources
- Author resources
- Book: Editing Fiction at Sentence Level
- Blog post: 3 reasons to use free indirect speech in your crime fiction
- Blog post: Crime fiction subgenres: Where does your novel fit?
- Blog post: How to write dialogue that pops
- Blog post: Playing with sentence length in crime fiction. Is it time to trim the fat?
- Blog post: Writing a crime novel – should you plan or go with the flow?
- Podcast episodes: The indie author collection
Music Credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle talk about zombie rules, and why they have no place in a professional editor's toolbox.
Listen to find out more about
- What a zombie rule is
- Why split infinitives are not grammatically problematic
- Why it's okay to start a sentence with a conjunction
Dig into these related resources
- Blog post: Fiction grammar: Is it okay to start a sentence with ‘And’ or ‘But’?
- Blog post: What are expletives in the grammar of fiction?
- Blog post: Should I use a comma before coordinating conjunctions and independent clauses in fiction?
- Podcast: How to manage the grammar police
- Resources for proofreading your own writing
- Podcast: Linguist Rob Drummond on grammar pedantry, peevery and youth language
- Blog post: What's the difference between a rule and a preference? Advice for new writers
Music Credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise Harnby and Denise Cowle talk about why audio is such a great medium for editors who want to build brand trust and grow their businesses
Listen to find out more about
- The popularity of audio content
- Stability during playback
- Native hosting on websites
- Voices as unique brand identifiers and trust builders
- Audio as an accessibility tool that allows communication with a diverse audience
- Why it's a less intimidating option than video
- The kit you need
- Options for recording, editing and hosting
- Editorial goals, and how audio helps us achieve them
Dig into these related resources
- The blog version: Why editors and proofreaders should be using audio
- Free booklet: How do I do my own audio-book narration?
- Podcast: 6 ways to use audio for book promotion
- Blog: 4 good reasons to edit your author podcast transcript
Music Credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise and Denise talk to Barry Award-nominated thriller writer John A. Connell about moving from Berkley (Penguin USA) to independent publishing.
Click to listen to Season 4, Episode 12
Listen to find out more about:
- Being a Hollywood camera operator ... Jurassic Park, Thelma and Louise, and NYPD Blue
- Getting a publishing contract with a major press
- The Mason Collins series
- When publishers are no longer invested
- Moving to independent publishing
- Clawing back book rights
- Using movie experience to craft a novel's scene
- Beyond writing: what indie publishers need to do
- Challenges and benefits of indie publishing
- Being edited
- Useful organizations
- Writing a series versus standalone novels
- Future projects
Top tips From John
- Build a mailing list
- Offer a free short story or novella
- Develop a series
- Use Facebook ads
- Craft a great website
- Engage with your audience
- Get your business head on
- Invest in appropriate editing
Contact John A. Connell
Subscribe to John's newsletter and get a free book:
- Website: John A Connell: Gripping Thrillers With a Historical Twist
- Email: john@johnaconnell.com
- Facebook author page
- John's books on Amazon US and UK
Editing bites
- Stephen King (video): Masterclass, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2012
- Joanna Penn: Video marketing for authors
- Mark Dawson's Self-Publishing Formula
- International Thriller Writers
- Mystery Writers of America
- Mark Dawson's Self-Publishing Formula
Ask us a question
The easiest way to ping us a question is via Facebook Messenger: Visit the podcast's Facebook page and click on the SEND MESSAGE button.
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Denise and Louise discuss the growth of audio in the book world, and how using sound creates reader engagement and helps build a fan base.
Click to listen to Season 4, Episode 9
Listen to find out more about:
- Narrating a sample chapter
- Creating free audio content that's usable
- Host a live sound event
- Broadcast an interview
- Encouraging sign-ups with your voice
- Starting a podcast
- Captivate: podcast hosting, stats and audience growth
Editing bites and other resources
- Write to be Published, Nicola Morgan, Snowbooks, 2011
- Twitter chat #indieauthorchat hosted by Tim Lewis
- Captivate
- Libsyn
- Soundcloud
- Music Visualisation Video Creator
- Audio-book Production (free booklet)
- ‘How to turn YouTube subtitles into blog posts and transcripts’ (blog post and video tutorial)
- Cleanfeed
- Zoom
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise and Denise discuss whether working with a specialist editor is necessary for all books and every type of editing.
Click to listen to Season 4, Episode 8
Listen to find out more about:
- Fiction versus non-fiction
- The type of editing
- Subject/genre
Editing bites and other resources
- Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing), Jack Hart
- ‘The Secrets of Story Structure’, KM Weiland
- The Editing Podcast, S1E1: The different levels of editing
- Switching to Fiction (online course for aspiring fiction editors)
- Research tools for crime and thriller writers (blog post)
- Consulting Cops
- The Art of Firearms in Fiction is a free 45-page primer featuring Steve Allen, a soldier-turned-editor who specializes in military particulars, with additional material from Aden Nichols, an editor and Special Forces veteran.
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise and Denise chat about 18 blogs for authors and editors that offer guidance on various aspects of writing craft.
Click to listen to Season 4, Episode 7
Listen to find out more about:
- ALLi blog: Alliance of Independent Authors
- Ann Handley blog
- Articles: The Writer’s Digest
- Articles: Tim Storm, Storm Writing School
- Bacon Editing blog: Claire Bacon
- Bookbaby blog
- Clarity: Lisa Poisso, Editor and Book Coach
- Denise Cowle Editorial Services blog: Denise Cowle
- Helping Writers become Authors: KM Weiland
- Jane Friedman blog
- LibroEditing blog: Liz Dexter
- Liminal Pages blog: Sophie Playle, Fiction Editor
- The Creative Penn blog: Joanna Penn
- The Editor’s Blog: Beth Hill
- The Itch of Writing: Emma Darwin
- The Editing Blog: Louise Harnby, Fiction Editor
- The Radical Copyeditor blog: Alex Kapitan
- The Subversive Copyeditor blog: Carol Saller
Editing bites and other resources
- Cult Pens
- Stein on Writing, by Sol Stein, Non Basic Stock Line, 2007
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
How to run and grow an editing and proofreading business. Q&A, Part 2: The Editing Podcast, S4E6
12/5/2020
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Denise and Louise answer more questions about how to run and grow an editing and proofreading business.
Click to listen to Season 4, Episode 6
Listen to find out more about:
- Increasing organic lead generation
- Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) and the impact on freelancers in California
- The benefits of working with publishers, packagers and project-management agencies
- Content marketing: Solving clients problems
- Facebook marketing: Ads, chatbots and website pixels
- Google ads and sourcing professional expertise
- Managing impostor syndrome
- Attracting indie genre-fiction authors: content marketing and branding
- Getting work with publishers
- Ethical promotion to a primed audience
- Technical writing and copy-writing
- Choosing a business name
- Building an editorial business on a tight budget
- Using career expertise as a foundation for an editing specialism
- Choosing the right training course
- Building a marketing strategy
- Starting an editing business when we care for young children
- Scaling a business: Passive income streams, price increases, training, and premium services
- Researching markets and audiences
- Making a website visible
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
How to run and grow an editing and proofreading business. Q&A, Part 1: The Editing Podcast, S4E5
11/5/2020
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Denise and Louise answer questions about how to run and grow an editing and proofreading business.
Click to listen to Season 4, Episode 5
Listen to find out more about:
- When editorial projects don't arrive on time ... how to manage it and how to prevent it
- Dealing with burnout and procrastination
- How to get fiction work with indie authors
- Making time for marketing
- Increasing efficiency
- Contracts, and whether email is sufficient
- What to tell publishers when we're asking to be placed on their freelance lists
- How to link up with other editors
- Billing in different currencies
- What to include on an invoice
- Starting an editing business, and the best order for tackling branding, website creation, social media networking, marketing, and investing in productivity tools
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with independent authors of commercial fiction, particularly crime, thriller and mystery writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Denise and Louise chat with book coach and editor Lisa Poisso about honing story craft before embarking on expensive structural and line editing.
Click to listen to Season 4, Episode 4
Listen to find out more about:
- Story basics: the Plot Accelerator
- Why developmental/structural editing comes after book coaching
- Genre, viewpoint, tense, character motivation and conflict, plot and subplot, and character arc
- Book mapping, and avoiding drinking and thinking!
- Super critiques on steroids: making a story solid
- The dynamics of book coaching
- Most common problems authors face
- Super-critiques
Contacting Lisa Poisso
- Email: lisa@lisapoisso.com
- Website
- Blog
- Twitter: @lisapoisso
- Instagram: lisapoisso
- Clarity newsletter
Editing bites and other resources
- Moniack Mhor, Creative Writing Centre, Scotland
- Start writing fiction: Free Open University course
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Denise and Louise discuss how to use exclamation marks, and why more than one is too many.
Click to listen to Season 4, Episode 2
Listen to find out more about:
- What exclamation marks look like
- Functions: Surprise, emphasis, volume
- How many to use
- Social media use
- Reasons to omit them: web, business academic copy
- Balancing use and abuse
Editing bites
- How to Fix Your Damn Book, by James Osiris Baldwin, CreateSpace, 2016
- Purdue OWL
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Louise and Denise discuss the grammar police, how to manage them, and why they're nothing to do with professional editing.
Click to listen to Season 4, Episode 1
Listen to find out more about:
- Who are the grammar police?
- Social media and the grammar police
- Pedantry versus professional editing for style, preference and flow
- Writing style: Business, academia, web copy, creative non-fiction, fiction
- Conventions and standards versus rules and errors
- How and when to tell a writer about an error
- Dealing with the grammar police
Editing bites
- Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation, by Jane Straus
- TextExpander
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Denise and Louise talk with guest Sea Chapman about constructed languages, or conlangs.
Click to listen to Season 3, Episode 10
Listen to find out more about:
Resources mentioned in the show
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
- What is a constructed language, or conlang?
- The different types of conlang
- Tips for writers who want to include conlangs in fiction
- The rules of play
- Base languages sometimes and conlang creation
Resources mentioned in the show
- Email Sea Chapman (sea@seachapman.com) for handouts from her ACES 2018 presentation, ‘Conlangs: Languages with Stories to Tell’ or to request additional resources
- Language Creation Society
- Conlangs on reddit
- Constructed Languages on Facebook
- ConWorkShop forum
- Conlangery podcast
- Iain Banks talks writing, world events and Mastermind (video)
- ‘A few notes on Marain by Iain M. Banks’
- Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
- ‘What’s Polari?’
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Denise and Louise discuss em dashes, or em rules, and how to use them in fiction and non-fiction writing.
Click to listen to Season 3, Episode 9
Listen To Find Out More About:
Editing Bites
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
- Parenthetical use
- Indicating a new speaker
- Indicating omission
- Profanity
- Showing faltering speech
- Conveying end-of-line interruptions
Editing Bites
- The Magic of Fiction, Beth Hill
- ‘Start here: How to self-publish your book’, Jane Friedman
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Louise Harnby is a line editor, copyeditor and proofreader who specializes in working with crime, mystery, suspense and thriller writers.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), a member of ACES, a Partner Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and co-hosts The Editing Podcast.
Visit her business website at Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor & Proofreader, say hello on Twitter at @LouiseHarnby, connect via Facebook and LinkedIn, and check out her books and courses.
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