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Rachel Rowlands, Book Editor & Author

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Editor Resources

Interested in becoming a book editor or want to start taking on freelance editorial work? Here are some resources to help you get started.

working as an editor

Editing careers

What is being a freelance fiction editor really like?

What is being a freelance fiction editor really like?

How to find editing and proofreading work with authors

How to find editing and proofreading work: Part 2, authors

Find editing and proofreading work with publishing houses

How to find editing and proofreading work: Part 1, publishers

Become a book editor

How to become a book editor

groups

Organisations

United Kingdom & Ireland

The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading

EPANI: Editors’ and Proofreaders’ Alliance of Northern Ireland

United States

The Editorial Freelancers Association

ACES: The Society for Editing

International

Editors Canada

IPED: The Institute of Professional Editors (Australia/New Zealand)

Member of the Editorial Freelancers Association

I went to IKEA recently, and someone had placed th I went to IKEA recently, and someone had placed this little stuffed cat inside a basket-house. Not sure if the basket is actually meant to be a house or just an oddly shaped decoration, but it's the perfect shape to house a stuffed animal, and it made me smile. 🐱 

The wider world feels very heavy right now (an understatement if ever there was one), but small moments of human fun, creativity, and whimsy like this one make me smile. Hope you've all been managing to find small moments of joy if you can. 🤍

Now I'm off back to my editing cave where I'll be working on some excellent client books. 📝
If you dig around on the internet long enough, you If you dig around on the internet long enough, you’ll probably encounter some of these myths about publishing…

The bookshop one definitely caught me out when I was a new traditionally published author! 👀 I was lucky enough to find my book in some Waterstones branches, but it wasn't in all of them – not even my local one, which I had been writing in for years! 

Are any of these surprising to you? 

#writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #writerscommunity
I was inspired by a recent Substack from @jackstra I was inspired by a recent Substack from @jackstrangeauthor talking about his journey writing romance and how it was almost fated. My own road to this genre was pretty unusual and something I truly didn't expect, even though it now feels very right for me, so I wrote about it in my own newsletter.

You can read it at the link in my bio. 🤍

#romanceauthor #romancebooks
A day in the life of a professional fiction editor A day in the life of a professional fiction editor and author! I've seen other people do these and thought they looked fun, so here is mine! 📚

#authorsofinstagram #freelanceeditor #bookeditor

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