I'm honored to be featured on the blog of Copyediting newsletter today. The blog post is accessible even if you don't subscribe ...

Have you ever wondered what it takes to juggle self-employment as an editorial professional with parenting of a baby or toddler? In this gue...

Now, this is seriously cool. On every public holiday in their respective countries and at the end of each year, I e-mail my 60-plus biomed...

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Editorial professionals, this post is for you. As part of the conversion of my business web site from HTML to PHP, the Copyeditors' K...

As a self-employed medical editor, I'm often asked how freelancers can find medical editing work. This topic came up recently on the Fre...

One of the big attractions of self-employment is the ability to set your own work hours. The variety of schedules that freelance editorial p...

There is now a huge and lucrative market for medical copyeditors like me who can polish the language of researchers who are nonnative Englis...

I'm pleased to be featured in a blog post on the field of medical copyediting, "A Primer on Medical Copyediting." The blog ( ...

Social-media platforms may be somewhat new communication tools—Facebook was opened up to use by the general public in 2006, Twitter was laun...

If you've followed my blog or Twitter stream for even just a few months, you know that I adore tea—whole-leaf or whole-flower teas, n...

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 ...