Louise’s experience, training, awards and teaching

Find out more about why how I contribute to the editing industry and keep my skills up to date.

​​Professional affiliation and experience

I'm a proud member of several professional organizations whose values align with my editorial business ethos.
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  • Chair: Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP); elected 2023, 2024–26
  • Communications director: Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP); elected 2020
  • Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)
  • ​Partner Member of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)
  • ​30 years of publishing experience, including in-house roles with Williams & Wilkins and SAGE Publishing 
  • Edited or proofread 650+ books for independent authors and publishing houses, including a Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit from the Goon Squad, and an anniversary facsimile edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula​ ​

​​Awards, nominations and speaking engagements

I'm regularly invited to speak at international editing conferences and professional-development events – online and in person – ​and have received industry-recognized awards for my teaching tools.
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Sharing knowledge with fellow editors at the CIEP Conference 2026.
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  • Panelist: How to Build and Grow your Freelance Business – Advice from an Expert Panel (Publishing Training Centre), 2026
  • Speaker: Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) conferences, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2025, 2026
  • Speaker: Professional Editors Guild conference, May 2023
  • Speaker: Association of Freelance Editors, Proofreaders and Indexers of Ireland (AFEPI Ireland) webinar: October 2022
  • Speaker: Editorial Freelancers Association (North Texas) webinar: April 2022
  • ​Speaker: Society of Authors SoA @ Home Festival, October 2021
  • Speaker: Society of Authors SoA @ Home Festival, July 2021
  • Speaker: Editors Queensland professional development event, 2020
  • Panelist: CIEP Editors' Round Table for Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), 2020
  • Panelist: Meet the Editors – Editing Training Scheme (The Literary Consultancy in partnership with the Publishing Training Centre), 2020
  • Panelist: CIEP Editors' Round Table for Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), 2019
  • Keynote speaker: Editorial Freelancers Association, Chicago, 2019
  • Finalist: Content Marketing Academy Awards, 2019 (Podcast of the Year)
  • Winner: Content Marketing Academy Awards, 2019 (Blog of the Year)
  • Finalist: UK Blog Awards, 2018
  • Speaker and panelist: CIEP conference, Toronto, 2018
  • Panelist: Fiction Editing, CIEP Norfolk Group, Norwich, 2018 
  • Winner: Judith Butcher Award​ (SfEP; now CIEP), 2017 ​
  • ​Joint winner: Unsung Heroes of Publishing, 2017​
  • Nominee: Karen Virag Award (Editors Canada), 2017 ​
  • Nominee: Judith Butcher Award​ (SfEP; now CIEP), 2015

My teaching materials: Books, courses, blog and podcast

I love to teach and consider it a critical part of my professional development. My popular books and multimedia courses are aimed at beginner and developing writers and editors. My teaching ethos is grounded in logical frameworks that make learning accessible.

BOOKS​
  • Business Planning for Editorial Freelancers (first edition out of print)
  • Business Skills Collection (7 volumes: Business Skills for Editors series)
  • Editing Fiction at Sentence Level
  • Editing Fiction Containing Gender-Neutral Pronouns (published by the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading)
  • Editorial Foundations (Notes from the Podcast #1. Co-authored with Denise Cowle)
  • Editorial Growth (Notes from the Podcast #w. Co-authored with Denise Cowle)
  • Editorial Sustainability (Notes from the Podcast #3. Co-authored with Denise Cowle)
  • Editorial Legacy (Notes from the Podcast #4. Co-authored with Denise Cowle)
  • Editorial Marketing (Notes from the Podcast #5. Co-authored with Denise Cowle)
  • Fiction Editing Collection (3 volumes: Transform Your Fiction series)
  • How to do Content Marketing (Business Skills for Editors 1)
  • How to Build an Editorial Blog (Business Skills for Editors 2)
  • How to be Visible with Social Media (Business Skills for Editors 3) (first edition out of print)
  • How to Brand Your Editing Business (Business Skills for Editors 4)
  • How to Earn Passive Income (Business Skills for Editors 5)
  • How to Develop a Pricing Strategy (Business Skills for Editors 6)
  • How to Use AI for Website Analytics (Business Skills for Editors 7)
  • Line Editing for Crime, Mystery and Thriller Writers
  • Making Sense of Point of View (Transform Your Fiction 1)
  • Making Sense of Punctuation (Transform Your Fiction 2)
  • Making Sense of ‘Show, Don’t Tell’ (Transform Your Fiction 3)
  • Marketing Your Editing and Proofreading Business, 2nd edition​​
MULTIMEDIA COURSES
  • 10 Ways to Get Editing Work Quickly ​
  • ​Blogging for Business Growth
  • Branding for Business Growth
  • Editor Website Essentials
  • How to Edit Slurs in Dialogue
  • How to Line Edit for Suspense
  • How to Punctuate Dialogue
  • ​How to Write the Perfect Fiction Editorial Report
  • Marketing Toolbox for Editors
  • Narrative Distance: A Toolbox for Writers and Editors
  • Preparing for Submission: 11 Ways to Make Your Prose Pop
  • Social Media for Business Growth
  • Start Crime Fiction Editing
  • Style Sheets for Fiction Editing
  • Switching to Fiction
  • To Visibility and Beyond
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Louise’s fiction writing

I write fiction too. Three of my short stories have made writing-competition shortlists.
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  • Living Fiction (ebook)
  • Shortlisted author for Noirwich Crime Writing Festival flash fiction competition, 2018
  • Shortlisted author for Bookseller/FutureBook Future Fiction short-story competition, 2018
  • Shortlisted author for Crime Writers' Association's Margery Allingham short-story competition, 2019