The Editing Podcast

Want to know more about academic developmental editing? Laura Portwood-Stacer discusses what it involves and how to develop your skills.

• What is academic developmental editing?
• Required skills and background
• Why academic authors seek help from developmental editors
• What do academic developmental editors do?
• Why it's different from other types of non-fiction editing
• The benefits to editors of offering an academic developmental editing service
• How academic developmental editors find clients
• Training and resources for academic developmental editors

• Contact Laura: manuscriptworks.com and lauraportwoodstacer.com
• Read The Book Proposal Book: manuscriptworks.com/book
• Train as an academic developmental editor: courses.manuscriptworks.com
• 10% discount coupon for course: EDITINGPODCAST

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

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Thinking about writing a book for editors and proofreaders? Find out how Brittany Dowdle and Linda Ruggeri navigated their authorial collaboration.

• Networking for Freelance Editors: Intended readership
• Challenging assumptions about networking
• Why write a book?
• Writing for editors: The burden of scrutiny
• Co-authorship: Syncing schedules
• Working efficiently and productively
• The power of collaboration
• The importance of trust in a writing partnership
• Book-creation process: Beyond writing
• Tips for editors who want to write a book

• Find out more about the book: Networking for Freelance Editors
• The Networking for Freelance Editors website
• FREE downloadable networking worksheets
• Contact Brittany Dowdle
• Contact Linda Ruggeri

Our patrons benefit from access to PDF transcripts for all episodes featuring just Louise and Denise, and for some of our guest episodes. If you'd like to support The Editing Podcast, join our Patreon community!

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

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Find out why you need a website if you want your editing or proofreading business to be visible and verifiable.

• Why you need a website even if you work only with publishers and packagers
• Why editorial directories aren't enough
• Why word of mouth has limitations
• How clients use websites for quality control
• Why a website future-proofs your business
• Current audience expectations around professionalism
• Websites versus social media presence
• Controlling your own land
• Creating a branded digital space
• Competing with colleagues who have websites

Our patrons benefit from access to PDF transcripts for all episodes featuring just Louise and Denise, and for some of our guest episodes. If you'd like to support The Editing Podcast, join our Patreon community!

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

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Learn about the power of networking with Brittany Dowdle and Linda Ruggeri, two professional editors who've honed the art of building relationships and exchanging ideas to grow their businesses.

• Networking for Freelance Editors (book)
• Personality types and networking
• Positive outcomes from networking
• Organic vs salesy approaches to networking
• The power of volunteering
• Top tips for networking

• Find out more about the book: Networking for Freelance Editors
• The Networking for Freelance Editors website
• FREE downloadable networking worksheets
• Contact Brittany Dowdle
• Contact Linda Ruggeri
• EFA Diversity Initiative
• Writer’s Digest

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

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Discover 3 actions you can take to improve the design of your editorial website and that can be implemented within only 24 hours.

• Navigation buttons
• Paragraph headings
• ​Short paragraphs
• How to support The Editing Podcast via Patreon

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

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Improve your understanding of microaggressions during the editing process and how to serve your author well regardless of your own identity and lived experience.

• What microaggressions are
• Microaggressions in editing 
• Why microaggressions occur during the editing process
• How microaggressions affect writers
• Why it's important for editors to know about microaggressions
• How editors can avoid doing this type of harm in their work
• How editors can learn about what they don’t know

• Conscious Style Guide
• Crystal Shelley, Rabbit with a Red Pen       
• Fuhrmann, Henry, ‘Drop the hyphen in Asian American’, Conscious Style Guide, 2018
• King, Ruth, Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out, Sounds True Inc, 2018

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

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Learn about 5 things you can do to give your editing and proofreading business a new-year polish.

• Be the editor who says, 'It's down to me.'
• Review what changes you can make to your business.
• How to measure your editorial-business success fairly.
• Organizational tips to help you track, plan and schedule.
• Creating templates and resources that will save you time.
• How to support The Editing Podcast via Patreon

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

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Find out about our new broadcasting schedule, and how you can join our community and access exclusive quarterly live Q&As with Louise and Denise.

• Our new fortnightly broadcasting schedule
• Some stupendous stats about our audience
• Episode topics for January 2022
• How to support The Editing Podcast via Patreon

• patreon.com/editingpodcast

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

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Subversive copy editor Carol Saller offers some top tips on blogging for editors, proofreaders and writers!

• In #1: Carol's blogging journey: The Subversive Copy Editor blog; Lingua Franca (for the Chronicle of Higher Education); Editor's Corner (for The Chicago Manual of Style); Fiction+ (for The Chicago Manual of Style)
• In #1: Blogging goals
• In #1: Coming up with ideas: two tips
• In #1: Blog promotion strategies
• In #2: Repurposing blog content
• In #2: Analytics, and how to avoid the rabbit hole
• In #3: Monetizing your blog
• In #3: Understanding the sales funnel
• In #3: Managing reader engagement
• In #3: Blogging trajectory: Deciding who to write for and when to stop

• About Carol Saller
• Blogging for Business Growth (course)
• 'Blogging for writers' (Jane Friedman)
• But Can I Start a Sentence with “But”? (University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff)
• Content Chemistry (Andy Crestodina)
• 'Getting the Most from LinkedIn' (YouTube tutorial)
• 'Google Analytics Tutorial 2021 – Learn Google Analytics 4 (GA4) & Universal Analytics Step-By-Step'
• How to Build an Editorial Blog (book)
• 'How to promote your blog' (Blogging Wizard)

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Subversive copy editor Carol Saller offers some top tips on blogging for editors, proofreaders and writers!

• In #1: Carol's blogging journey: The Subversive Copy Editor blog; Lingua Franca (for the Chronicle of Higher Education); Editor's Corner (for The Chicago Manual of Style); Fiction+ (for The Chicago Manual of Style)
• In #1: Blogging goals
• In #1: Coming up with ideas: two tips
• In #1: Blog promotion strategies
• In #2: Repurposing blog content
• In #2: Analytics, and how to avoid the rabbit hole
• In #3: Monetizing your blog
• In #3: Understanding the sales funnel
• In #3: Managing reader engagement
• In #3: Blogging trajectory: Deciding who to write for and when to stop

• About Carol Saller
• Blogging for Business Growth (course)
• 'Blogging for writers' (Jane Friedman)
• But Can I Start a Sentence with “But”? (University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff)
• Content Chemistry (Andy Crestodina)
• 'Getting the Most from LinkedIn' (YouTube tutorial)
• 'Google Analytics Tutorial 2021 – Learn Google Analytics 4 (GA4) & Universal Analytics Step-By-Step'
• How to Build an Editorial Blog (book)
• 'How to promote your blog' (Blogging Wizard)

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/