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How to Become a Book Editor Guide

I'm creating a practical guide to building a freelance book editing career: from learning the actual work to finding clients, setting your rates, creating your services, and turning editing into a sustainable business. This information is everything I wish I had when I started!

What’s INSIDE

Find your path into book editing

Figure out where you’re starting, which types of editing fit your strengths, and whether specializing or staying a generalist makes sense for you.

Identify skills and skill gaps

Learn about the skills you need to edit professionally: grammar and style guides, prose, storytelling, editorial feedback, genre knowledge, and working in tracked changes.

Get experience before you have clients

Practical ways to learn, practice, build a portfolio, and gather the social proof you need.

Set up your freelance editing business

Decide what to offer and what to charge, then tackle the less glamorous but very important parts: contracts, invoices, expenses, taxes, tools, and getting paid.

Find clients and build a steady pipeline

Learn the strategies I’ve actually used to find work, including freelance marketplaces, directories, writing communities, referrals, social media, educational content, repeat clients, and organic leads.

Make the Work Sustainable

I’ll walk you through how to take this work from side hustle to a full-blown business that can support you full-time.

Hi, I’m dana

I'm a full-time freelance book editor and published, award-winning writer. I built my editing business without a traditional publishing-house or a roadmap for how to turn editing into an actual freelance business that could sustain me full time. Now, the business I’ve built is not only sustainable, but abundant.

I'm putting everything I've learned (the editing side and the business side) into the resource I wish I'd had when I was figuring it out myself.