Month: June 2019

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Why Should I Pay for Professional Editing?

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I recently made posts on Instagram and Twitter asking the writing community a question that is pretty important to me: if they hadn’t used or didn’t plan to use a professional editor, what was their reasoning? I got a lot of responses, which was awesome, and incredibly enlightening. I had (somewhat naïvely, it transpires) assumed … Read More

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Meet the Editor: Emma O’Connell

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Emma O’Connell graduated with a First Class Degree in English Literature and Italian Language; she has been editing professionally since 2016, and informally long before then. She has worked on a wide variety of media and genres, from her husband’s PhD thesis in High Performance Computing to children’s picture books, but her first love is … Read More