So You Want to Be an Editor, Part 2: Starting a Freelance Editing Business
Now that you’ve faced your fears and decided to make the leap into freelance life, how do you go about starting a business?
Art Historians
All Translations Are My Own: Can Your Own Translations Be a Fast, Cheap, and Good Alternative?
Is it always a good idea to translate quotations or other texts from academic sources yourself? When does it highlight your foreign language skills and when does it lead you into dangerous waters?
How to Get What You Want from a Well-Crafted Business Email in the Arts
Do you want to ensure art world VIPs read your email message or request and that you get a response?
So You Want to Be an Editor? Part I: My Journey from the Academic Cult to Post-Ac Business Owner
In this multipart series of blog posts spread throughout the fall 2021 semester, I will give you an abridged version of my path to editing and how I’ve built it into a sustainable career.
Five Things Your Acquisitions Editor Is Looking for in a Publishable Book
How can you make the best use of your limited time and energy to ensure that your book will make it past an acquisition editor’s email inbox?
Why You Should Hire an Editorial Freelancer for Your Next Writing Project
The single most important reason that you should hire an outside editor for your project can be summed up in the definition of the role of an editor: we are here to serve as the reader’s advocate.
How Art Historians Can Beat the Summer Writing Slump
It’s all a matter of setting goals, prioritizing, and taking control of your schedule, both on the macro and the micro levels.