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Hone your writing and editing skills with articles, books, webinars, booklets and podcast episodes dedicated to making your publishing life easier.

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Articles about time-saving fiction writing and editing tools

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Free booklet: Formatting in Word: Find and replace

This booklet provides independent authors and editors with guidance on how to tidy up a Word document.

Guidance on inclusive and respectful writing

Explore resources that help editors and writers work to actively consider whether the words in a novel are driving story forward and enriching readers, or causing unintended harm. 

​The tools linked to in this booklet aim to help you apply good editorial judgement to fiction from a conscious-language perspective.

Books and courses to help you hone line craft​

Editing Fiction at Sentence Level

Want to do your own line editing? This 74K-word book shows you how.

Preparing Your Book for Submission

'The BEST event I have been to on how to edit a manuscript. I learned so much!' – ​SoA @ Home Festival​ attendee
This 30-minute webinar teaches commercial fiction authors 11 pithy line-editing tips that make a substantive difference to writing flow and reader experience.

Andy Maslen, bestselling crime author

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HELPED ME SHED SO MANY OF MY FEARS​
​Through all of the changes and feedback I was never once anxious. That you made all of the changes needed with generosity and care is incredible. This is what I want to spend my life doing, and you have helped me to shed so many of my fears about doing so. It means everything. Thank you.

REBECCA MILTON, FANTASY AUTHOR​

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Free template for writers and editors

Record your preferences for the micro elements of your book ... spelling, punctuation, rules about the way your fictional world works, and how you treat the various elements of the text (from paragraphs and headings to narrative, speech and thoughts).

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