As part of my partnership with the fine folks over at Kaleidoscope Publishing, my Edit Your Novel Like a Pro online course is now being hosted on their website. This allows them to provide the course to their authors, while still keeping it available to the public.
If you’ve ever taken my full-day editing seminar, the online course contains the same material, with some new things added to take advantage of the lack of time constraints. For example, the structure module has been expanded to more than an hour. The full course contains about seven and a half hours of teaching—an hour and a half more than the in-person version.
Many writers face the same problem. They know they must edit, but they think editing means reading the manuscript over and over again until they don’t find anything else to change. The problem is, you can do that indefinitely.
Edit Your Novel Like a Pro teaches writers the systematic method that professional editors use. This course shows you how to revise, in what order, and how to know when you are finished. The introductory module provides an overview of the editing process. Then the following ten modules cover the elements of fiction:
- Character
- Viewpoint
- Plot
- Pacing
- Structure
- Setting
- Description
- Dialogue
- Voice
- Mechanics
The final module, Next Steps, covers how to decide between traditional publishing and self-publishing, and how to proceed on either path.
If you attended the full-day seminar and wished your writing friends could have been there, now is the time to recommend it to them. And if you haven’t, especially if you just finished a manuscript and are wondering what to do next, this course will tell you!
Kaleidoscope Publishing is a hybrid publisher; that is, they offer both fee-for-service author services and traditional-style wholesale distribution. Their rigorous editing process produces a high-quality product, and their ever-expanding wholesale network and distribution relationships help sell your book.