Rooted in Writing

Exciting news! A new podcast co-hosted by yours truly will be dropping later this year. I'm so excited to sit down with my dear friend and fellow editor Carrie and discuss how to turn good but messy scenes into great, memorable stories. 🖤

The writing struggle is real (especially when you’re stuck in revisions)! 😆

What if your editorial workflow worked like a story instead of a scramble? 📚✨

In my upcoming 90-minute webinar with the EFA, I’m teaching editors how to map their services onto a three-act structure—sales, onboarding/project management, and offboarding—using story beats, administrative archetypes, and repeatable systems that flex with each manuscript instead of being rebuilt from scratch.

If your admin feels scattered, your processes reinvent themselves every project, or your boundaries keep getting tested by surprise side quests… this class is for you. You’ll walk away with practical tools to forecast income, manage your schedule with confidence, and deliver consistent client experiences—beat by beat.

🗓️ March 12 at 5:00 p.m. ET
🔗 Link in bio to register!
✍️ Bring your business. We’ll give it a story arc.
🏷️ Take $10 off in checkout with "AH-uUEtE3f7RV".

I have one more line editing course slotted for 2025, then a full year of classes starting back up again in January 2026. There are still a few seats left for Intermediate Line Editing for Commercial Fiction—class starts September 10, 2025! Hope to see you there!

If you'd like to sign up for one of my classes, use the code AH-uUEtE3f7RV (case sensitive) at checkout. This promo code will give you $10 off *ANY* purchase with the Editorial Freelancers Association over $150, including courses, membership, and renewals.

Link in my bio for course details and enrollment.

Thank you, for having me at your conference today! It was so fun to meet a bunch of fellow creatives and talk about turning our literary art into a paid career. Loved hanging out with and .atwood.writer r on the panel.
Can’t wait to see everyone’s creativity out in the world!

ROUND TWO IS HERE! ✨🖤✨ My six-week intermediate course on line editing commercial (genre) fiction is up for sale with the EFA. Seats are limited and already selling fast, so if you've been wanting to level up your line editing with a focus on syntactical impact on genre conventions, join me in January! (The beginner course will run again in April.)
🗯️ COURSE QUOTE: "The path to creating intentional edits is by understanding the WHY behind the words. Then your defense will not be for your edit’s viability but for the story’s vision. Intentional, defensible editing makes you an advocate for your client’s story."
And please share the news with your editor friends. 🖤
🎟️ SAVE YOUR SEAT: https://www.the-efa.org/product/line-editing-of-commercial-fiction-intermediate-sp25/