Denise and Louise discuss how to prepare your book file for editing ... whether you're doing it yourself or working with an editor.

Listen to find out more about:

• When to do interior layout
• Where to do your editing
• Whether to edit in a single document or multiples
• Using styles
• Font choice
• Colour choice
• Paragraph design
• Spacing
• Defining headings
• Page numbering
• Section breaks
• Pictures and images
• Tables of contents
• Indexing

Editing bites

• Editing in Word, 2nd Edition, by Adrienne Montgomerie: http://bit.ly/2Xy3CPs
• How to Market a Book, by Joanna Penn

Other resources

• Review of Montgomerie’s Editing in Word, 2nd ed. by Louise Harnby (blog post): http://bit.ly/2XrlDza
• How to use styles (video tutorial): https://youtu.be/1IRBqPm7LBk
• How to use styles (blog post): http://bit.ly/2XHkKCx
• PerfectIt: https://intelligentediting.com/
• The Author’s Proofreading Companion (booklet containing raw-text tidy-up tips): http://bit.ly/ProofCompanion
• Proofreading checklist (PDF): http://bit.ly/CheckProof

Ask us a question

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Denise and Louise

• Denise Cowle Editorial Services: bit.ly/CowleEditing
• Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor: bit.ly/HarnbyEditing

Music credit

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/