Use these books to dig deep into fiction editing, marketing, business planning, social media marketing, branding, blogging and content marketing.​

Editing Fiction at Sentence Level

Fiction is about flow, rhythm, mood, voice and style. This book shows you how to hone line craft so that the narrative and dialogue compel readers to turn the page. £15.99

Making Sense of Point of View

​This fiction-editing guide helps editors and authors understand the different narration styles in commercial fiction. I teach you how to recognize viewpoint, and hold it, so that readers are immersed in your story and your characters' experiences of the world you've created. ​£7.99

Making Sense of Punctuation

​​This fiction-editing guide shows authors and editors how to use different types of punctuation in a novel. I go beyond publishing-industry conventions and teach you how to play with punctuation so that your prose is clear but laced with mood and rhythm too. £7.99

Making Sense of ‘Show, Don’t Tell’

​​​This fiction-editing guide helps editors and authors understand the differences between shown and told prose. I teach you how to determine whether there are stylistic problems and how to craft solutions. The outcome is a stronger story and a more immersive reading experience. £7.99

How to do Content Marketing

​This business-skills guide shows editors and proofreaders how to create and deliver valuable, problem-solving content that enhances editorial business visibility, reinforces brand, and maximizes choice over whom we work for and what we earn – and all within a framework that embraces engagement with colleagues and clients. £7.99

How to Build an Editorial Blog

This business-skills guide shows editors and proofreaders, step by step, how to create a captivating blog-based content platform that drives traffic to your website, makes you visible in the search engines, and adds value for your clients-to-be. £7.99

How to be Visible with Social Media

This business-skills guide shows editors and proofreaders how to use social media to increase online visibility, expand their audience, reinforce brand and generate leads ... without falling into a rabbit hole and without spending any money. £7.99​

How to Brand Your Editing Business

This business-skills guide shows editors and proofreaders how to build an emotion-based brand identity that’s rich in the flavour of you, and compelling to the people you'd love to work with. This framework is accessible for all editors, even those with no branding or marketing experience. £7.99

How to Earn Passive Income

This business-skills guide shows editors and proofreaders how to develop additional and recurring income streams. I teach you how to supplement your editing earnings by creating problem-solving products that customers will love to buy, and all using your existing knowledge base. £7.99

How to Develop a Pricing Strategy

This business-skills guide teaches editors and proofreaders how to create a pricing strategy. The foundation is a healthy money mindset that focuses on your business needs, and a strategic framework that gives you the power and confidence to choose and stand up for your pricing decisions. £7.99

Omnibus: Editorial Business Planning & Marketing Plus

This volume includes all of the content from Business Planning for Editorial Freelancers​and Marketing Your Editing & Proofreading Business, plus a whopping 42 chapters of additional material. £19.99

Marketing Your Editing & Proofreading Business

For any editorial freelancer who feels that marketing is their Achilles’ heel. With it, I demonstrate that marketing needn't be difficult, overwhelming or boring. Learn the core principles of developing and implementing an effective marketing strategy that will get you noticed and generate business leads. £16.99

Business Planning for Editorial Freelancers

​This book is for those with no prior publishing or editorial experience. The practical guide takes new proofreaders and editors, step by step, through the basics of planning their career. £7.99

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Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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How to Develop a Pricing Strategy is so much more than a book on how to price for our services. I felt lifted after reading it – confident to set aside time dedicated to just me, my business, and my future.

Before, I would freeze as soon as a client asked me for a quote. Once I’d defrosted, I felt sick. I hated quoting for anything beyond a simple proofread or copyedit. ‘Whatever you think is fair,’ was my approach, a strategy that effectively placed me in a perpetual state of either anxiety or denial.

This guide gave me hope. Louise always gives me hope! She smashed my preconceived ideas with a demolition ball, and at first I felt rather exposed. Several chocolate bars and a few chapters later, I began stripping my pricing strategy bare. Then Louise gave me the tools to build it back up so that now it’s built on firmly rooted foundations rather than balancing on wobbly toothpicks.
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Through it, I discovered that I had undervalued myself and therefore undervalued my skills and experience. Now I have a pricing voice because I own me and all that I choose to do. 

Book: How to Develop a Pricing Strategy

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Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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Being self-employed as an editorial professional doesn't have to be feast or famine. If you market your services consistently, not just when you're out of projects to work on, you'll be able to say good-bye to dry spells. And for your marketing to be successful, you have to do it in a way that is true to who you are. I enthusiastically recommend Louise Harnby's book, Marketing Your Editing & Proofreading Business, because it shows you, step by step, how to do that.

Book: Marketing Your Editing & Proofreading Business

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Freelance Editorial Services

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Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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I found Louise through her incredibly useful blog. She has become my go-to resource for aspects of writing I know I should pay attention to but when the story is in full spate I sometimes neglect. Editing Fiction at Sentence Level is my one-stop-shop resource. Highly recommended.

Book: Editing Fiction at Sentence Level

Andy Maslen
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Crime writer

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