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Oh, the fun of finding a manuscript editor. Back on February 26, we talked about how to handle feedback from a manuscript editor. So...

Beta readers. It’s a term I never heard once during my first 20 years of writing. Part of that, no doubt, is because I was a pretty little

If you’re finished revising your second draft, you’re starting to stand on some much more solid publishable-point ground. Your plot is looki

Have you finished revising your first draft? Then this is your video since it’s all about how to revise a second draft. And yes, second dra

What’s the best way to edit your first draft? That’s the subject of this video, which details Step #3 in the “Getting to the Publishable Po

There’s a basic publishing-process checklist I like to promote whenever I’m acting as a beta reader, manuscript editor or book coach. It’s o

Nice manuscript editors deserve the perfect Christmas presents. Don’t you agree? Not naughty ones, of course. They deserve horrible Christm

I have another cheesy “writitude” blog post scheduled for Thanksgiving tomorrow. So I’m using today to say what I’m thankful for, and that’s

I’m so exceptionally proud to announce that Innovative Editing has been voted the best place to work – ever! Editors have never had it so go

Writers (and editors) can do well with a few doses of humility thrown into their lives here and there. It’s a great quality to put on in the

This week, welcome to the world of writers’ conferences, which can lead to good things, great things or no things. How so? To best understa

It’s just about National Novel Writing Month go-time! Though for NaNoWriMo 2017, this writer has an editor’s goal instead. I know that Nati

When it comes to checking for story plot holes in a manuscript, creative writers have a choice. They can do it the easier way or the hard wa

Last week, I came across a post on one of the Facebook writer and author groups I belong to. Written by an English teacher who had his own b

If you’ve got a book manuscript, whether it’s a creative writing piece or something in the non-fiction category, you want to have an editor.

This writing-related Challenge of the Week is a giant deal for any authors who’ve decided to self-publish their books. As such, forget any b

I know I’ve been dishing out a lot of tough writing love these last few weeks about your manuscript, saying that your first draft might be b

Today’s writing-related Challenge of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, concerns the issue of publishaphobia: my mad

I had a highly entertaining editorial conversation with one of my genuinely awesome editing clients the other day. I’d love to tell you all

We’re up to “final draft” for today’s writing Definition of the Week, as posted on Innovative Editing’s Facebook page, which means we’re dow