So, you want to learn how to line and copy-edit fiction? Excellent. That makes you approximately 97% more awesome than everyone else in the world. And signing up for this course makes you approximately 97% more likely to succeed than those who don’t. (For official statistics on this, please phone my mother. She will confirm.)

However, before we jump into exactly how to go about line and copy-editing fiction, I thought it would be useful to actually define what these services entail and how they fit into the glorious (yet slightly mysterious) world of publishing.

So that’s what this first module is all about: providing you with a snapshot of the publishing industry and what it means to be a line and copy-editor working within it. After all, this is important stuff. You’d look pretty silly if you didn’t know it.

In this module, you’ll learn:

• What line and copy-editors actually do (and what they don’t do)
• Why this kind of sentence-level editing is so important
• Who hires line and copy-editors
• What the line and copy-editing process looks like
• How line and copy-editing fits into the wider publishing process
• What’s meant by the term ‘proof-editing’
  

Right, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover, so grab yourself a cup of tea and let’s dive in! (To the course, not the tea.)