Being visible gets you found. Being trusted gets you hired. Building skills gives you confidence.
​I'll teach you how to achieve all three ... wherever you live.

How to Fix Dialogue in a Novel

COMING SOON!
Learn how to identify and fix poorly crafted dialogue so that it drives story forward, deepens character, and engages readers. In addition to developing the required stylistic editing skills, you'll discover how to punctuate, tag and lay out speech according to publishing-industry convention.
​£39.99

How to Write the Perfect Fiction Editorial Report

NEW: AVAILABLE NOW
​Learn how to craft engaging sentence-level editorial reports that are comprehensive, critical, constructive, and loved by your fiction clients.
£29.99

Switching to Fiction

Want to switch to sentence-level fiction editing but not sure what else you need to know? This 4-step framework covers readability, narrative, dialogue, and technical correction and consistency. Includes a complementary copy of Editing Fiction at Sentence Level.
​£29.99

To Visibility and Beyond

Discover how to create reusable, knowledge-rich content that makes you visible online, compels ideal clients to hire you, and saves you time in your day-to-day editing work. ​
​£10.49

10 Ways to Get Editing Work Quickly

Is your editing cupboard bare? This webinar is for emergencies. It won't replace a long-term marketing strategy but it will help you out of a fix and secure clients fast.
​£10.99

Branding for Business Growth

This 9-step course shows you 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.
£59.99

Blogging for Business Growth

Learn how to create a discoverable, captivating and memorable blog that drives website traffic, makes you visible in the search engines, and generates editing work.
£59.99

Social Media for Business Growth

Discover how to create a purposeful social media strategy that increases your online visibility, expands your audience, reinforces your brand, and generates work leads.
​£59.99

8-Step Blueprint for a Standout Home Page

This 8-step webinar shows you how to build a client-focused home page that communicates your message, builds trust and keeps visitors on your website. 
​£5.99

Course reviews

Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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Louise's Switching to Fiction course is a treasure trove for editors who want to add fiction line editing to their repertoire but don't know where to begin. Her webinar and ebook outline the specific issues in fiction that an editor will need to consider, peppered with lots of examples, and all in Louise's friendly and approachable style. And the course website also includes many other resources such as style sheet and report templates, videos, booklets and a further reading list. Highly recommended for anyone looking to become a confident fiction editor!

Course: Switching to Fiction

Maya Berger
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Editor

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Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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If you’re interested in editing fiction, or just improving your craft as a writer, I highly recommend the Switching to Fiction course. Louise knows how to break down fiction editing into understandable and workable sections. The webinar provides you with a basic road map to the many different areas of line editing. The course book goes into deeper detail.

Course: Switching to Fiction

Sarah Calfee
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Romance Editor

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Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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Before Louise’s course, I found myself taking jobs I didn’t want (but felt I had to), undervaluing myself, and suffering from impostor syndrome. Post-course, I am confident in my unique strengths as an editor and writing coach, and I understand how to best target and serve my ideal client. If you’re a skilled editor but find yourself drowning in a sea of other well-qualified freelancers, Branding for Business Growth will forever put to rest the uncertainty of how to market yourself. You will know who you are, what you have to offer, and who you want to serve.

Course: Branding for Business Growth

Susan Puiia
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Editor and Writing Coach

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Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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If you’re interested in editing fiction, or just improving your craft as a writer, I highly recommend the Switching to Fiction course. Louise knows how to break down fiction editing into understandable and workable sections. The webinar provides you with a basic road map to the many different areas of line editing. The course book goes into deeper detail.

Course: Switching to Fiction

Jennifer Warren
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Editor

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Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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Using the framework she teaches, I looked in detail at not only my offering, but at the type of authors I want to interact with. I used my relationship with existing ideal clients to help me understand myself better. Now my website not only reflects my personal values better, but also looks more professional. This is all down to your influence, Louise. Your course is brilliant.

Course: Branding for Business Growth

Lesley Jones
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Fiction Editor

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Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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Even as an experienced editorial blogger I found Louise’s course fantastic – a great refresher on the foundations of creating a blog that gets attention. And it’s definitely got me thinking about how I can make further improvements to my blogging strategy (like using video). Highly recommended.

Course: Blogging for Business Growth

Sophie Playle
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Fiction Editor

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Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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I'm getting so much out of this course. Louise is an expert content marketer (as well as editor), and it shows. But she is also encouraging – delighted and excited to help other editors achieve the same success – and both the course content and supporting materials reflect that. I've gone from thinking I have no ideas for a blog, to trying to decide which should be my first post. A great investment in my business!

Course: Blogging for Business Growth

DeAnna Burghart
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Editor

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I’m a big fan of [Harnby's] advice and her approach to giving it. These new webinars don’t disappoint. ... If you do the work from even just a couple of episodes, with the worksheets Harnby provides, your blog will be up and running within a week.

Course: Blogging for Business Growth

​Adrienne Montgomerie
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SciEditor

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Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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​I am one hundred percent pleased with the content and have already recommended the blogging course to other editors. Thank you for generously sharing your knowledge.

Course: Blogging for Business Growth

Karin Parkin
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Copyeditor & Proofreader

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Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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Switching to Fiction is a great resource. Louise isn’t prescriptive; instead she radiates a cheerful, pragmatic sense of what works in fiction at sentence-level [and] gives you a range of tools to help you understand how to elevate your writing and editing. Louise is a fantastic presenter and the webinar is clear and insightful. I love the accompanying book, too, which provides even more detail and backs up the messages from the webinar.

Course: Switching to Fiction

Jenny Williamson
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Proofreader, Editor & Writer

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Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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Part of my work is translating novels for older children into English. Switching to Fiction has helped me weave explanations of cultural terms or ideas more naturally into both narrative and dialogue. Because the novels are for children, these explanations must be included. And the other day, I consciously added my first action beat into a piece of dialogue that was becoming a bit long-winded! Thank you.

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About the training series

The Craft Your Editorial Fingerprint series offers a range of online classes to help editors and proofreaders develop a compelling and recognizable business presence – a stand-out fingerprint that increases visibility, attracts clients, and generates leads.

There are no time restrictions on the training. Plus, there's free live support via my Facebook group for when you get stuck or need feedback.

On-demand tutorials at no extra cost

My training approach is dynamic. Here's how it works ...

Each course comes with additional tutorials available exclusively to Fingerprint students ... videos that show you how to use some of the tools I refer to in the training.

​However, the content will expand over time. If there's something extra you need that's directly related to the course, I'll create a custom walk-through ... but you won't pay a penny more.

Quick-access links

Each course page is a library. Forget rummaging around on the blog or hunting via the search box for material to consolidate your learning.

If there's existing free content on my site, and it's relevant to your chosen course, I'll show you how to access it quickly.