If you're an editorial professional, it's a mistake to limit your memberships to only one or two profession-related groups and to se...

Everyone who ends up an editorial freelancer comes to self-employment from a unique path. Lots of us on the Copyediting-L e-mail list told ...

Contracts—some freelance editorial pros swear by them, and others would rather use the proverbial handshake. And because freelancers are ind...

How do you address potential clients when they contact you by e-mail? E-mail is such an immediate medium—well, okay, less immediate than i...

Editorial professionals usually put together web sites that focus on getting clients to use their services—to buy editing—so it's a plea...

I am pleased to present this blog's first-ever guest post. It was written by my colleague Carolyn Haley, a talented editor and author. S...

The only way to bring in enough money when you're self-employed is to constantly market your services. If you're an introvert, you m...

All good editing, in my opinion, is fueled by tea. (Don't believe me? Read this .) And to me, all good tea is brewed from whole tea leav...

I occasionally get inquiries from authors new to editing—or new to paying for it themselves—who want to know how much it would cost to edit ...

My husband, a cabinetmaker, just finished a small project to help a colleague out; he did it as a subcontractor to the colleague. A few days...

I'm angry. I'm more than tired of hearing U.S. editorial professionals put down editorial pros from other nations—I'm appalled...

Over on Deliberate Ink , the blog of my colleague Shakirah Dawud, I've written a guest post on the subject of how to chose an editor an...

I am pleased to tell you that an interview that I did as part of a series on finding your niche as an editorial professional is now up as a ...

At some point in your career as a self-employed editorial professional, you're going to compare your fees with those of your colleagues...

Most years, I send out "Happy New Year" greeting cards by snail mail to every single one of my clients, even those I haven't e...

I was recently privileged to edit sections of a physician-researcher's proposal for a grant from the National Institutes of Health to fu...

I'm so proud of self-employed proofreader and copyeditor Cassie Armstrong, one of my mentees! She's such a go-getter. Read her story...

One of the many business decisions that self-employed copyeditors have to make is how to charge, and that may be more important than what ...

I've noticed a troubling divide among self-employed editorial professionals in how they approach finding work with new clients and respo...

I know that some of you, seeing the title of this post, are rolling your eyes and thinking something like this: Good grief! There she goes a...