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    Working With a Freelance Editor: Tips & Tactics for Success
    Working With a Freelance Editor: Tips & Tactics for Success
    Working With a Freelance Editor: Tips & Tactics for Success
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    Working With a Freelance Editor: Tips & Tactics for Success

    By Linda Nathan

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    Professional editing can make your writing succeed. Learn how to determine your need for an editor, how to find and assess the right one, and how to get the most from the relationship. Learn about the different types of editing, payment, and contracts. The author is a professional published writer, editor, and publishing consultant who has helped many authors get published.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLinda Nathan
    Release dateDec 12, 2011
    ISBN9781466000056
    Working With a Freelance Editor: Tips & Tactics for Success
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    Linda Nathan

    Linda has over 30 years of extensive experience providing solutions for authors. This includes professional writing, editing, publicity, and consultation services in a wide variety of fields, as well as critiques, query letters/proposals, agent/publisher research, and literary publicity services. Published author.

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      Working With a Freelance Editor - Linda Nathan

      Working with a Freelance Editor: Tips and Tactics for Success

      By Linda Nathan

      Published by Logos Word Designs, Inc at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Logos Word Designs, Inc - All Rights Reserved

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Understanding Your Situation

      Determining Your Need for a Freelance Editor

      Finding and Assessing Your Editor

      How Much Should You Pay?

      The Other Side: What You Bring to the Relationship

      How Do Editors Choose Clients?

      Logos Word Designs, Inc. contact information

      About the Author

      What others are saying about Linda’s services

      Introduction

      You’ve written the Great American novel, and it’s ready for publication. But no one else seems to think so.

      Maybe you’ve tried everything - you’ve read the writing books and used the gimmicks, talked to agents and editors at conferences, entered contests, joined critique groups, badgered friends and family (Mom loves it), and even considered self-publishing.

      You are wondering, what do I do next?

      Have you considered hiring a freelance editor?

      Popular author Austin Boyd (The Pandora Series, Zondervan; Mars Hill Classified Series, NavPress) is an example of the good fruit that can come from the right relationship with a freelance editor.

      After nine years of writing, Austin

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