Working with Editors

Getting Help From Professional Editors
How do you get your book accepted by a publisher? You need to produce a polished piece of work, and that might mean hiring a freelance editor to do it.

How to Choose a Freelance Editor
What you should know before you hire one.

What Different Kinds of Editors Do
What is the difference between an acquisition editor and a managing editor? What does a copyeditor do? This article weeds through the bramble of editorial job functions.

Finding Problems in Your Manuscript
Content editors, copyeditors, and proofreaders all look for different problems in a manuscript. You can look for the same problems as you perform self-editing.

Author Guides to Getting Hired

How to Work With a Magazine Editor
Before you submit a proposal to a magazine, make sure you learn your craft and know the basics. Here are some tips that will give you a better chance of getting in the door.

For new Ghostwriters: How to do it
Shakespeare used them. Tom Clancy uses them. Lawrence Sanders died in 1998, and he still uses them. Who are they? Ghostwriters—freelancers willing to write for a fee and take no credit for the piece.

Improving Your Writing

The Writer’s Notebook
Practice makes perfect. Keeping a journal can translate into hours of great practice, and results in improved writing.

Get a Morning Writing Jolt
Inject your writing with caffeine and bagels.

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