Use these books to dig deep into fiction editing, marketing, business planning, social media, branding, blogging and content.
Fiction editing isn’t a mysterious instinct
You don’t need a special kind of brain to edit fiction. You need to understand what to look for, what questions to ask and how to work out why a piece of prose is – or isn’t – achieving what the writer intends.
My books take an analytical approach to fiction editing, using structured frameworks to help you examine prose, understand cause and effect, and make editorial decisions you can explain and justify.
They’re not about reducing fiction to a formula. They’re about making something that can feel subjective and instinctive much more tangible – and giving you practical ways to develop your own editorial judgement.
Think you’re not wired for fiction editing? Read why I think that’s a myth.
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Line Editing for Crime, Mystery and Thriller Writers‘Incredible! Excellent value and would expect nothing less from Louise Harnby. Depth and quality guaranteed!’ – ★★★★★ Amazon reviewer
A handbook for any writer and professional editor who wants to craft page-turning moments in crime, mystery, suspense and thriller fiction. £29.99
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Fiction Editing Collection‘The Fiction Editing Collection is a must-have’ – Deborah A Cecere, copyeditor
Save 10% when you buy all 3 guides
This PDF collection offers editors and writers all 3 books from the Transform Your Fiction series. Learn how to approach viewpoint, punctuation, and shown and told prose, and transform fiction with confidence. You save 10% on the standard price. £26.97 |
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Making Sense of Point of View'Valuable guide for new writers and useful reminder for the more experienced. Highly recommended' – Philip Prowse, espionage author
This fiction-editing guide helps editors and authors understand the different narration styles in commercial fiction. Learn 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. £9.99
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Making Sense of ‘Show, Don’t Tell’‘I cannot tell you how informative and useful I found this’ – Nic Winter, crime writer
This fiction-editing guide helps editors and authors understand the differences between shown and told prose. Learn 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. £9.99
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Coming soon: Marketing Your Editing and Proofreading Business, 2nd edition‘The Bible for new freelance copyeditors and proofreaders’ – Jerry Berardi, editor
Fully revised for today’s editorial marketplace, this practical guide helps editors and proofreaders make deliberate marketing choices, build visibility and trust, communicate their value clearly, and focus their time and money on the activities that matter most to the clients they want to reach.
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Business Skills Collection
Get two books free!
This PDF collection gives editors all six books from the Business Skills for Editors series but for the price of only five! Learn the foundations of content marketing, blogging, social media, branding, passive-income creation, creating a pricing strategy and using AI to assist you with website analytics. £49.95
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How to do Content Marketing‘A guide that every professional editor should own and read’ – Rich Adin, editor
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. £9.99
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How to Brand Your Editing Business‘My only complaint is that the book ended!’ Jenny Bright, editor
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. The framework is accessible for all editors, even those with no branding or marketing experience. £9.99
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How to Earn Passive Income‘A unique blend of expertise and supportive wisdom’ – Cally Worden, fiction editor
This business-skills guide shows editors and proofreaders how to develop additional and recurring income streams. Learn how to supplement your editing earnings by creating problem-solving products that customers will love to buy, and all using your existing knowledge base. £9.99
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How to Develop a Pricing Strategy‘This guide gave me hope. Louise always gives me hope!’ – Julie Pinborough, editor
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. £9.99
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How to Use AI for Website AnalyticsThis business-skills guide teaches editors and proofreaders how to start with a useful question, find the evidence that matters, use AI to analyse it, challenge the conclusions and turn what they discover into practical decisions. Using real examples from my own website, I’ll show you how to understand what’s working, what isn’t and what to do next – without becoming an analytics expert. £9.99
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Editorial Foundations (Notes from the Podcast #1)‘The Bible for new freelance copyeditors and proofreaders’ – Jerry Berardi, editor
Helps editors and proofreaders who are setting up their new businesses. It captures the conversations we’ve had about building a freelance business from the ground up. £11.99
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Book: Making Sense of ‘Show, Don’t Tell’
I learnt a lot from this book, written in Louise’s typically engaging and straightforward style. I heartily recommend this guide for its clarity and accessibility, its nuanced take and, most of all, its solid, practical approach to identifying and fixing issues.
JENNY WARREN, EDITOR, reviewing for the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)
I learnt a lot from this book, written in Louise’s typically engaging and straightforward style. I heartily recommend this guide for its clarity and accessibility, its nuanced take and, most of all, its solid, practical approach to identifying and fixing issues.
JENNY WARREN, EDITOR, reviewing for the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)
Book: Making Sense of ‘Show, Don’t Tell’
I absolutely loved your book, Making Sense of ‘Show, Don’t Tell’. I cannot tell you how informative and useful I found this, and after one read it highlighted approximately 500 issues with my writing. I keep it open when I am writing as I love to dip in and out of it.
NIC WINTER, CRIME FICTION AUTHOR
I absolutely loved your book, Making Sense of ‘Show, Don’t Tell’. I cannot tell you how informative and useful I found this, and after one read it highlighted approximately 500 issues with my writing. I keep it open when I am writing as I love to dip in and out of it.
NIC WINTER, CRIME FICTION AUTHOR
Books: How to Earn Passive Income and How to Create a Pricing Strategy
Course: Editor Website Essentials
Being an editor is a rewarding but challenging profession. Imagine my relief when I discovered Louise Harnby and the resources she provides for editors to build our businesses! Louise really gets down into the nitty-gritty of a topic and crucially, you come away being able to put those tips into action.
I recently delved into three: How to Earn Passive Income (book), Editor Website Essentials (multimedia course), and How to Create a Pricing Strategy (book). All three came at the perfect time for me. Professional enrichment is not a one-off. If we really want to flourish, we editors need to continually examine how we conduct our editing businesses and represent ourselves online. Thankfully, Louise has a rich supply of exactly the learning materials that editors need – all easily accessible and reasonably priced. Actually, I can't afford NOT to learn from Louise.
JULIE GRAY, DEVELOPMENTAL EDITOR
Course: Editor Website Essentials
Being an editor is a rewarding but challenging profession. Imagine my relief when I discovered Louise Harnby and the resources she provides for editors to build our businesses! Louise really gets down into the nitty-gritty of a topic and crucially, you come away being able to put those tips into action.
I recently delved into three: How to Earn Passive Income (book), Editor Website Essentials (multimedia course), and How to Create a Pricing Strategy (book). All three came at the perfect time for me. Professional enrichment is not a one-off. If we really want to flourish, we editors need to continually examine how we conduct our editing businesses and represent ourselves online. Thankfully, Louise has a rich supply of exactly the learning materials that editors need – all easily accessible and reasonably priced. Actually, I can't afford NOT to learn from Louise.
JULIE GRAY, DEVELOPMENTAL EDITOR
Book: Editing Fiction at Sentence Level
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.
ANDY MASLEN, CRIME AND THRILLER WRITER
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.
ANDY MASLEN, CRIME AND THRILLER WRITER
The Fiction Editing Collection is a must-have ...
I’ve done your How to Write the Perfect Fiction Editorial Report and Switching to Fiction courses (in that order) and had the pleasant learning experience this week of working through your Fiction Editing Collection (three pdf books covering point of view, punctuation, and show, don’t tell).
The Fiction Editing Collection is a must-have – even for those who have done your Switching to Fiction course or bought the book as a separate item. Although the buyer of both the course and the collection will find an overlap of topics (and of some of the explanations and examples), the buyer of the collection will be thrilled with the standardized structuring of the topics – which is extremely conducive to self-learning – the additional subject matter, and the even more numerous examples and annotations.
The best way to describe the collection is as separate master classes on the topics of point of view, punctuation, and show, don't tell. I'm looking forward to applying what I've been made aware of, and learned how to fix, to the real-world example of a pending edit.
DEBORAH A CECERE, COPYEDITOR
I’ve done your How to Write the Perfect Fiction Editorial Report and Switching to Fiction courses (in that order) and had the pleasant learning experience this week of working through your Fiction Editing Collection (three pdf books covering point of view, punctuation, and show, don’t tell).
The Fiction Editing Collection is a must-have – even for those who have done your Switching to Fiction course or bought the book as a separate item. Although the buyer of both the course and the collection will find an overlap of topics (and of some of the explanations and examples), the buyer of the collection will be thrilled with the standardized structuring of the topics – which is extremely conducive to self-learning – the additional subject matter, and the even more numerous examples and annotations.
The best way to describe the collection is as separate master classes on the topics of point of view, punctuation, and show, don't tell. I'm looking forward to applying what I've been made aware of, and learned how to fix, to the real-world example of a pending edit.
DEBORAH A CECERE, COPYEDITOR
So much more than a book on how to price our services …
How to Develop a Pricing Strategy is so much more than a book on how to price 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. 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.
JULIE PINBOROUGH, THE WORD ROOM
How to Develop a Pricing Strategy is so much more than a book on how to price 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. 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.
JULIE PINBOROUGH, THE WORD ROOM
Book: Marketing Your Editing and Proofreading Business
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.
KATHARINE O'MOORE-KLOPF, ELS, KOK EDIT
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.
KATHARINE O'MOORE-KLOPF, ELS, KOK EDIT
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