I was recently honoured to be a part of a guest panel of three editors for the writing podcast The Stranger Side of Crazy, along with host (and author) Prometheus Silver, editor Darcy Werkman from The Bearded Book Editor, and developmental editor Sydney Hawthorn. I had great fun recording the episode, even though my one-year-old … Read More
In my last blog post, I discussed why I feel it’s worth paying for good editorial work; my opinion (unsurprisingly) still stands, and if you are wavering at all on whether to pay for editing, please do read it before deciding. However, as I mentioned, I’m fully aware that some writers just literally don’t have … Read More
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
