Editing is not the same as proofreading. They are different skills used by different people at different stages of book production. While I do fix typos and strive to provide clean edits, typos can still escape my notice and occur in the editing phase. I encourage all manuscript clients to hire a proofreader to review design files immediately prior to production.)
I know I’ve covered some of this in other posts. But let me repeat here, if only for my own sanity: Editors are not proofreaders. Editors are not ghostwriters. Editors are not marketers. There are sev
A friend of mine said to me recently, “Sometimes I think about becoming an editor. I often spot typos in books.” I cringed on the inside. A friend of a relative reached out to me last year because she