Learn tips and tools for getting editorial work

Use these resources to discover the different kinds of editing work and how to find it. Take a look at the marketing resource library, too, for more ideas about how to be visible to your ideal clients.
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Articles about editing work and how to find it

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Find your national editorial society

There are national and regional editorial societies all over the globe! To find one that fits your journey, and discover what it has to offer in terms of resources, community and training, click on the button below.

Books to help you get work

Marketing Your Editing and Proofreading Business, 2nd edition

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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Visit the book's page to find out more.

How to do Content Marketing

​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. 

​Visit the book's page to find out more.

Resources to help you find editing and proofreading work

How to Start a Fiction Editing Business

This webinar introduces you to the different types of fiction editing, the types of clients you're most likely to be working with, the language they'll use when searching for editorial support, finding work, and some suggestions for training and skills development.

How to get a move-on with marketing

If you’re an editor or proofreader who finds marketing your business overwhelming, here are 6 ideas to help you rethink your mindset and pull you out of the mire.

​Click on the cover to download the booklet.

Why proofreading isn’t an ideal side hustle

Proofreading has long been touted online as a good way to supplement a regular income – the side hustle. This booklet examines the notion, and explores the challenges.
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​Click on the cover to download the booklet.

Courses and webinars to help you get work

Marketing Toolbox for Editors

Here's what you get:
  • Webinar: 10 Ways to Make Your Editing Website Better
  • Template: Create your own brand book
  • Mini guide: Blog Post Blueprint
  • Book: Marketing Your Editing and Proofreading Business
  • Book: How to Develop a Pricing Strategy

Editor Website Essentials

This course teaches you how to craft a visible, loveable editorial website that gets you found!

​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.

10 Ways to Get Editing Work Quickly

This webinar on emergency marketing helps editors and proofreaders whose cupboards are bare.

​You’ll learn 10 steps you can take today to get yourself out of a fix and secure clients fast.

Get my best advice straight into your inbox

The Editorial Letter comes out once a month. Get my best advice on fiction editing and editorial business building.
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​free proofreading checklist – a one-stop resource for reviewing designed page proofs!

Listen to podcast episodes about business growth

These episodes of The Editing Podcast discuss how to build and grow a freelance editorial business.