Brenner Erin Brenner

Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors (eBook, ePUB)

How to Take Care of Your Business, Your Clients, and Yourself from Start-Up to Sustainability

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The definitive guide to starting and running a freelance editing business.You ve been thinking about shifting into the world of freelance editing, but you don t know where to start. In a time when editors are seeking greater flexibility in their work arrangements and schedules, freelancing is an increasingly common career option. But deciding to go it alone means balancing the risks with the rewards. From the publisher of The Chicago Manual of Style comes The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors, the definitive guide to running your business and finding greater control and freedom in your work life.In this book, Erin Brenner an industry leader and expert on the business of editorial freelancing gathers everything you need to know into a single resource. Brenner has run her own successful editing business for over two decades and has helped hundreds of editors launch or improve their businesses through her teaching, blog writing, and coaching.The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors will walk you through the entire process of conceiving, launching, and working in a freelance editing business, from deciding on services and rates to choosing the best business structure to thinking through branding and marketing strategies and beyond. This book is ideal for beginning freelancers looking to get set up and land their first clients, but it s equally valuable to those who have already been freelancing, with detailed coverage of such issues as handling difficult clients and continuing professional development. You ll find a collection of advice from other successful freelance editors in this guide, as well as an extensive list of resources and tools. In the final and perhaps most important chapter, Brenner teaches you how to care for the key component of the business: yourself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226833057
• Artikelnr.: 72335685

Autorenporträt

Erin Brenner is the owner of Right Touch Editing, which provides small and midsize organizations with writing and editing teams. Brenner has worked in communications since 2005, and she is a former instructor in the copyediting certificate program at the University of California San Diego and a former co-owner of Copyediting. She frequently presents on editing and business topics for editor organizations. She is the editor of Copyediting's Grammar Tune-Up Workbook.