Learn how to edit your own writing. Get your book ready for publication!
10 Tips to Self-Edit a Book: Increase Confidence, Save Money, and Accelerate Your Timeline
You’ve worked hard on your manuscript. You want to get it published and into your readers’ hands. Are you ready to send it to your editor?
Wait! Use these self-editing strategies to polish your work before hitting SEND.
Why? Getting your book to your editor in a more polished state saves you time and money. It also gets you to the finish line faster.
But how? It’s easy. Learn the ins and outs of editing writing in my free ebook,
10 Tips to Self-Edit a Book: Increase Confidence, Save Money, and Accelerate Your Timeline
This ebook gives you basic editing tips so you can:
Increase your book editing and book publishing vocabulary.
Cut down on common errors.
Eliminate typical writing flaws.
Build a self-editing checklist and resource toolbox.
You’ll develop strategies and skills the more you practice using my self-editing methodology.
How can you trust I know what I’m talking about?
I’ve helped hundreds of clients as an editor for more than 25 years at LIVE Publishing Company and as the owner of The Savvy Red Pen. I’ve also helped scores of authors transform the spark of an idea into a polished manuscript and then a published book in hand, offering expertise, moral support, and accountability at various stages of their writing and editing process.
I practice self-editing every day, and I keep my trusty self-editing checklists next to my laptop to keep me focused on the task at hand. These same editing checklists can transform your self-editing process, making you more effective and efficient at editing your own writing.
Check out what people are saying about 10 Tips to Self-Editing: Increase Confidence, Save Money, and Accelerate Your Timeline
“All I need is right here! The tips are handy when I’m editing my own work, and the ebook tells me the things I need to know that I didn’t know I needed to know. “
— Norma, the No-Nonsense Business Coach
“I felt like a weight has been lifted. I knew I needed to clean up my manuscript, but I needed the tips on grammar, formatting, and parts of a book. The checklist is a lifesaver. And I know I saved some money.”
— Tony, Coach, Speaker, Business Author
“I was panicking because I didn’t how to get my book ready for my beta readers. I really needed help on story flow and cutting out unnecessary words.”
— Mona, Entrepreneur and Creative Nonfiction Author
Take the next step like these writers did.
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Meet the Author
Gail Kerzner
Gail founded The Savvy Red Pen based on over 25 years of experience with LIVE Publishing Company as publisher, editor, proofreader, and project manager. She has worked with hundreds of clients— corporations, nonprofits, and individuals— to help shape their ideas into must-read, compelling print and digital publications.
Decades as a college composition and technical writing instructor (courtesy of multiple degrees in English and a lot of perseverance) have also shaped her role as coach, grammarian, and confidante to writers of all backgrounds and interests.
The Savvy Red Pen works with book authors, businesses, nonprofits, and college-bound students to bring their writing projects to fruition using her draft to dream, stress to success approach.