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Fiction-editing courses with zero time restrictions

All my courses come with lifetime access. That means you can learn at your convenience, not mine.
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Start Crime Fiction Editing

Learn about the genre, the stylistic tools that support it, common problems, and the pithy edits that can transform a manuscript from mundane to magic. You’ll also get actionable advice on how to edit synopses, query letters and blurbs, and how to get your business organized and visible.
​​​'The style sheet template is brilliant ... Having the customisable options is excellent.' – Leona Skene

Style Sheets for Fiction Editing

This fully customizable style-sheet template improves efficiency and consistency, and helps you demonstrate professionalism when editing and proofreading fiction.
‘Holy moly, Louise! I’ve just finished working through the course, and what you’ve provided is so very generous – and all presented clearly and beautifully. This will undoubtedly help any sentence-level editor save HOURS of thinking and writing time.’ – Sophie Playle, fiction editor

How to Write the Perfect Fiction Editorial Report

This fully customizable editorial report template will save you time, increase your hourly rate and ensure you provide top-notch professional feedback.

The Fiction Line Editing Bundle​

Save £60 when you buy the 4-course bundle
​I teach you how to line edit fiction and report with conviction. You get a specific set of tools with which you can hone your stylistic line editing craft and communicate your suggestions with confidence.

The Fiction Editor’s Toolkit​

Save £25 when you buy the 2-course bundle
Get 2 done-for-you templates to record your stylistic decisions and report to your client – and create a standout editorial pack. The ready-to-go tools are fully customizable, and there's advice on how and why to use them.
​​​'Went far beyond what I was expecting.' – Beta tester

How to Line Edit for Suspense

Learn how to identify suspense in a novel and evaluate its effectiveness using the suspense trifecta framework. Edit for improved reader experience and communicate your revisions with confidence.
‘Told me masses of new stuff, and gave me a set of new tools to use immediately.’ – SoA @ Home Festival​ attendee

Narrative Distance

Learn how to recognize and control narrative (psychic) distance. The result? Seamless viewpoint transitions that deepen a reader's engagement with the novel's characters.

How to Punctuate Dialogue

​This self-paced course teaches editors, proofreaders and writers how to punctuate dialogue in a novel according to publishing-industry conventions.

How to Edit Slurs in Dialogue

​This self-paced course teaches editors about six adaptable tools that can be used when line editing dialogue containing discriminatory language.
‘I loved it … your insights and advice are insanely valuable.’ – Angela Snowden, editor

Switching to Fiction

Learn how to move from non-fiction to fiction, and edit at sentence level with confidence. The 4-step framework covers readability, narrative, dialogue, and technical correction and consistency. Includes Editing Fiction at Sentence Level  (ebook)
‘This is the BEST event I have been to on how to edit a manuscript. I learned so much!’ – SoA @ Home Festival​ attendee

Preparing Your Book for Submission

This 30-minute webinar teaches commercial fiction authors 11 pithy line-editing tips that make a substantive difference to writing flow and reader experience.

​Fiction-editing courses in development​

Editorial-business courses with zero time restrictions

All my courses come with lifetime access. That means you can learn at your convenience, not mine.

The Editorial Business Bundle​

Save £125 when you buy the 6-course bundle
With this bundle of 6 courses, I teach you how to nail your website, build a brand identity, create an emotional connection online, develop a content strategy, and get work fast.
‘The content and resources offered are generous and highly valuable.’ – Tina Williams

Emotional Marketing that Gets Editors Work

This 7-step framework teaches you how to evoke emotion in your ideal clients, and generate sales and income without having to pitch a sale. ​
‘An absolute gem of a resource that covers all the bases. Thank you! This is just what I needed.’ – ​Tom Cavendish, editor 

Marketing Toolbox for Editors

This toolbox is packed with tips and tactics to help you with promotion, pricing, brand consistency, blog content, and your website. The goal: to get editing and proofreading work with a variety of different client types.
‘A brilliant course packed full of information and resources.’ – Angela Bissell, fiction editor

Editor Website Essentials

This course teaches you how to craft a visible, loveable editorial web presence! The 10-step framework takes you through the essentials of SEO, navigation, structure, visitors, UX, branding, web page copy, home page design, content and analytics.​
​‘Branding for Business Growth is the perfect pick-me-up for any editorial business in need of a refresh.’ – Lucy Ridout, fiction and travel editor

Branding for Business Growth

This 9-step course on editorial branding teaches editors and proofreaders how to build an emotion-based brand identity. Discover how to stand out online, attract more ideal clients, and build a longer wait-list.
‘Do the work from even just a couple of episodes and your blog will be up and running within a week.’ – Adrienne Montgomerie, editor

Blogging for Business Growth

This blogging course teaches editors and proofreaders how to create a discoverable, captivating and memorable blog that drives website traffic, increases visibility in the search engines, and generates editing work.

To Visibility and Beyond

Learn how to create reusable, knowledge-rich content that makes you visible online, compels ideal clients to hire you, and saves time in your day-to-day editing work.
‘Just the kick in the butt I needed. Even those small touches bore fruit the next day with an old client. Thanks so much!’ – Ryan, editor

10 Ways to Get Editing Work Quickly

This webinar on emergency marketing helps editors and proofreaders whose client cupboards are bare. You’ll learn 10 steps you can take today to get yourself out of a fix and secure work fast.

In development

  • ​​How to Generate Passive Income: Learn how to how to develop PIPs (passive income products) to generate additional and recurring income streams. You'll access the 5-step PIP Development Framework and get access to my unique PIP Planner tool. Register your interest.

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How to Start a Fiction Editing Business

This free 57-minute webinar introduces you to the different types of fiction editing, some ideas for finding work, and suggestions for training.

Editing in Word: Using Styles

Learn how to introduce consistency to the various text elements in your novel using Microsoft Word styles. I'll show you how to set them up, modify them and import them into other documents. 

How to Prepare Your Book File for Editing

​This webinar offers writers 12 tips on how to make a book file ready for an editor and avoid wasting time on unnecessary design.​

Unboring Business Planning

This webinar shows editors and proofreaders why business planning is worth investing time in and needn't be boring when it's framed around 2 questions: What do you want and how will you get it?

The Levels of Editing

This webinar helps new fiction authors, editors and proofreaders understand the differences between developmental editing, line editing, copyediting and proofreading, and the order of play.
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