How to prepare your book file for editing
The Editing Podcast · Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)
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Show Notes
Denise and Louise discuss how to prepare your book file for editing ... whether you're doing it yourself or working with an editor.
Listen to find out more about:
- When to do interior layout
- Where to do your editing
- Whether to edit in a single document or multiples
- Using styles
- Font choice
- Colour choice
- Paragraph design
- Spacing
- Defining headings
- Page numbering
- Section breaks
- Pictures and images
- Tables of contents
- Indexing
Editing bites
- Editing in Word, 2nd Edition, by Adrienne Montgomerie: http://bit.ly/2Xy3CPs
- How to Market a Book, by Joanna Penn
Other resources
- Review of Montgomerie’s Editing in Word, 2nd ed. by Louise Harnby (blog post): http://bit.ly/2XrlDza
- How to use styles (video tutorial): https://youtu.be/1IRBqPm7LBk
- How to use styles (blog post): http://bit.ly/2XHkKCx
- PerfectIt: https://intelligentediting.com/
- The Author’s Proofreading Companion (booklet containing raw-text tidy-up tips): http://bit.ly/ProofCompanion
- Proofreading checklist (PDF): http://bit.ly/CheckProof
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Denise and Louise
- Denise Cowle Editorial Services: bit.ly/CowleEditing
- Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor: bit.ly/HarnbyEditing
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/