ABOUT EDITING an essential guide for authors

A savvy author needs a working knowledge of editing. With so many paths to publishing nowadays, this is more important than ever.

Proper editing can enhance your author credibility and improve your chances for success by raising the quality of your manuscript, submission packages, marketing materials, social media posts, and websites. Many authors overlook these crucial advantages. Even if you're aiming for traditional publication, your project will benefit greatly from professional and timely editing.

In this book authors will learn:

• why to examine publishing choices from an editing perspective

• the types of editing and when each might be needed

• how to prepare your work to get the most out of your editing budget

• which editing tasks you can do yourself

• how to choose an effective editor?and where to find one

• how to save money on editing expenses

Improve your progress on the publishing pathway by learning how quality editing can smooth the way for success, however you define it.

Auteur

SALLIANNE HINES is a great fan of all things Austen. And Tolkien, Mary Stolz, Georgette Heyer, Marie Kondo, and many more. After publishing numerous nonfiction articles and essays over the years, she decided to try her hand at fiction and followed the adage to "write the book you want to read." The result is her first novel written, Love & Stones, a contemporary story about a seasoned heroine, published November 2020. Her second novel, Her Summer at Pemberley, is a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, which tells the story of Kitty Bennet. Two more novels are in progress in her Austenesque "Mothers, Sisters, Friends" collection. The Pleasure of Her Company (Mrs. Dashwood's story) will launch late 2022.

Sallianne is a lifelong horsewoman, mother of three, grandmother of eight, and shares her home with a boss cat and two dogs (who give way to said cat). They all live in a little house on the prairie. Really.

To learn more about Sallianne and her books, visit her website at https://www.salliannehines.com.

(Photo was taken by daughter Abbey at the Richardson Grove Redwoods?one of those magical places here on earth.)