Freelancing for Editors
Join our online panel to learn best practices for finding editing work, building a network, cultivating clientele, creating a portfolio, and more.
About the Past Event
Whether you are considering freelance editing for the first time or looking to build knowledge and experience for career advancement, you will benefit from the expertise of four editing professionals who will provide insights on how to edit on a project-by-project basis for a variety of clients.
As a freelance editor, you can choose the types of editing projects that interest you, and you can often choose where you work. However, you also must be flexible, adapting your approach, to build your business. Hosted by the Professional Development Certificates Student Advisory Board, this online panel will share best practices for finding editing work, building a network, cultivating clientele, creating a portfolio, marketing editing services, and setting prices.
Attendees will learn to do the following:
- Identify techniques to attract clients and to grow a small business.
- Distinguish general organization and marketing strategies.
Speaking at the event
Tyler Balli, MA
Managing Editor, Ohio University Press
Tyler Balli is the managing editor at Ohio University Press (OUP). At OUP he supervises all aspects of the editorial process, from manuscript cleanup to indexing. He specializes in working with scholarly material but has also edited fiction, trade nonfiction, poetry, scientific guide books, blog...
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Sharon Brinkman, MA, JD
Acting Manager, American Journal of Sociology
Sharon is the acting managing editor at the American Journal of Sociology. She has also worked as a manuscript editor at the Astrophysical Journal in the Press Journals Division. She is a freelance editor for several Elsevier medical journals as well as for the Journal of Legal Studies and the...
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Siobhan Drummond, BA, MA
Editorial and Production Consultant
Siobhan Drummond is an editorial and production consultant. She was previously the managing editor at Chiron Publications and Triumph Books, as well as the production manager at the University of Chicago Press and Northwestern University Press. She holds degrees in music theory from the University...
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Katherine Faydash, MUPP
Editor and Urban Planner
Katherine Faydash is an editor and urban planner. She previously was an editor at Great Books Foundation, Loyola Press, and University of Chicago Press, and a practicum instructor for a course on human rights in Mexico at DePaul University’s College of Law. At UIC’s Great Cities Institute, she...
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