Developing a Marketing Strategy: Cost-effective ways to market your editorial business
Sara Hulse
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Sara Hulse offers a straightforward, concise guide to the practical steps that editorial freelances can take to market themselves. It's not about putting together a fancy, overcomplicated plan – it's much more about teaching yourself to think how you can make the most of your existing clients, as well as targeting new ones.

Many of the tips found throughout the text have come directly from SfEP members, based on their direct experience of what works. This guide has been written to inspire you and to encourage you to seek information and support from the sources and organisations listed in the appendix.

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Editing Fiction: A short introduction – NEW TITLE
Imogen Olsen
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It's always been notoriously difficult for newcomers to break into the field of fiction editing. However, the recent massive growth in the creative writing industry, coupled with the fashion for self-publishing novels as e-books, has opened up new opportunities for freelance fiction editors.

This guide is aimed at both freelances who want to know more about traditional fiction publishing and those who'd like to take advantage of the growing market but know little about the techniques of editing fiction. It explains the difference between working for publishers and working for private clients, and examines the separate skills of manuscript assessment, structural editing and copy-editing. It concludes with an extensive list of resources for further study.

Editing into Plain Language: Working for non-publishers
Sarah Carr
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With increasing demands for clearer communication in both the public and the private sector, plain-language editing has much to offer non-publishers. Looking at key aspects of working as a freelance editor in this market, this guide will help:

• editors to command good rates of pay and have the satisfaction of clarifying information intended for the general public
• organisations to improve the clarity of their texts (both printed and electronic), and so increase their own efficiency and effectiveness
• the public and other readers of such readable and more understandable texts to have more knowledge and power.

Editor and Client: Building a professional relationship
Anne Waddingham
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We all know that a 'professional' does it for money, but what a professional is and does goes much further than that. A true professional demonstrates skill and competence and is adept at building business relationships with clients that bring mutual benefits based on trust and respect.

Using case studies drawn from the experience of many editors, this concise guide aims to help freelances understand the needs of their clients, and to give clients a clear awareness of freelances' requirements to do a good professional job. The HMRC's employment guidelines are also examined, as client and freelance should be aware of common practices that may put at risk the freelance's self-employed status.

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Starting Out: Setting up a small business 2nd edition
Valerie Rice
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If you're thinking of becoming an editorial freelance, or have recently taken the plunge, here's invaluable help from someone who has done it successfully.

There's information on making the decision to go freelance, what you'll need to set yourself up, and managing your finances, as well as advice on how to get work and how much to charge and a section of useful websites and books.

This popular guide has been completely revised and updated, and contains much valuable information to help you to a successful freelance career.

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Theses and Dissertations: Checking the language
Pat Baxter
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Student theses and other dissertations, postgraduate essays and post-doctoral articles form a not inconsiderable portion of the work that many copy-editors and proofreaders do.

The subject areas of these academic texts range across all fields of study, and this rich cultural diversity offers scope for the development and edification of copy-editors and proofreaders themselves, as well as providing opportunities to broaden editorial experience.

This guide covers many aspects of this work, ranging from ethics to marketing, methodology and theory to practice, pros and cons to rewards and limitations. It also illustrates through directly referenced text the variations in content and style that might be encountered.

Your House Style: Styling your words for maximum impact
Christina Thomas
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A badly presented document, publication or website loses credibility quickly when the reader is distracted by inconsistent spelling and usage and badly presented figures and measurements.

The cure? A well-thought-out editorial house style to guide everyone who works on a document, publication or website.

This guide outlines the value of a house style and reveals how to go about constructing such guidance if you don't already have it. It will alert you to the many ways in which content, whether printed or online, can disappoint, simply through inconsistent usage or presentation.

Working through this will help you identify weaknesses in your written content and enable you to devise a style guide that can be used by everyone concerned to iron them out.

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