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Join Flatpage’s Chief Editor Cara Jordan on Friday, May 10, at 10 a.m. PT | 1 p.m. ET for a FREE LIVE webinar about careers in freelance editing.


Freelance editors provide a wide range of editorial services to authors and clients. In this Publishing CareerBuilder, they will discuss key stages in the editorial process, and explore services including developmental editing; book coaching; working with graduate students, international authors, and corporate clients; line editing, copyediting, indexing, and proofreading. Their panelists—authors and editors of The Art of Academic Editing and The Freelance Editor’s Handbook—will share their insights into how you can find clients, price your services, and build and maintain a profitable and enjoyable business as a freelance editor.


Panelists:

• Suzy Bills, Assistant Teaching Professor of Editing and Publishing, Brigham Young

University; author of The Freelance Editor’s Handbook

• Leslie A. Castro-Woodhouse, PhD Castro-Woodhouse, PhD, founder, Origami

Editorial; co-editor, The Art of Academic Editing: A Guide for Authors and Editors

Cara Jordan, PhD, Cofounder, Flatpage; co-editor, The Art of Academic Editing: A Guide

for Authors and Editors

Maria Snyder, PhD Snyder, PhD, editor and translator, chapter author in The Art of

Academic Editing


This event are moderated by Nicole Mintz, CPS Career Services Director, and John W. Warren, Director and Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Publishing.


The Publishing CareerBuilder webinar series at The George Washington University – College of Professional Studies is free and open to all current and aspiring publishing professionals, at all stages of your career.


I hope you were patient enough to read my first blog, and I appreciate it. Also, I hope you have an amazing day and I will see you on the future blog. Bye bye!


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