For the month of June, our special guest is copyeditor extraordinaire Laura Poole. Laura Poole is a freelance copyeditor working mostly with scholarly nonfiction. She also teaches copyediting and offers her own training workshops and webinars. She is the founder of Archer Editorial Services starting the company 20 years ago. In 2015, she became co-owner and director of training for Copyediting.com.
For independent authors, publishing a book often involves significant upfront costs—from editing and cover design to printing and marketing. In the traditional publishing model, a large or even mid-sized publisher would absorb many of these expenses, but when a writer...
How to get started on getting started. Many scholars—whether newbies or old-hands with writer’s block—easily get stuck when the time comes to present their book pitch to scholarly publishers. Writing eloquently to make a good case for a book pitch is already...
For much of publishing history, success was defined by the “frontlist”—the shiny parade of new releases that arrived each season with marketing fanfare and bestseller ambitions. Backlist books—titles published more than a year or two ago—were often treated like quiet...
At Technica Editorial, we believe that great teams cannot function in silos, which is why every member of our staff is cross-trained in editorial support and production. We train our employees from the ground up so they can see how each role fits into the larger publishing process. This strategy means Technica is uniquely positioned to identify opportunities to improve and streamline your workflow. Because we invest in creating leaders, you get more than remote support — you get a partner.