Dandy the Highway Lion by Stephanie Sorrell

A handful of the lovely books I’ve worked on! This year, I also did a job for the CIEP, giving feedback on a developmental editing guide before it was published.

I love working with these two businesses as the people who run them are lovely and I enjoy the projects. I did some work for service providers too – in case you’re wondering, these are other editorial businesses such as Pikko’s House and Writers & Artists, who hire me to take on jobs. I’m pleased that I did slightly more work for independent authors this year, as I wanted to scale back my publisher work slightly. The bulk of my work was for publishers and independent authors, which isn’t a surprise. I’m more selective about these genres anyway, so that makes sense. Genres I did less of this year were mysteries, non-fiction, and historical. I also did a lot of contemporary fiction, romance, and sci-fi!

Books: 42 (go figure – I’m a book editor after all!)įantasy and crime/thrillers were my top genres this year – eleven and thirteen projects for those genres.

I want to focus on copy/line editing, proofreading, and manuscript assessments.

On that note, next year I won’t be offering submission packages anymore either. This is mainly because I take on so many manuscript assessments now, and I just don’t have the additional time or headspace for beta reads. You’ll also notice that I stopped doing beta/sensitivity reading this year. I started self-publishing my own writing this year, too, so I wanted to have at least some time for that without becoming stressed out! I started being more careful of this by booking further out and raising my rates (also a necessity thanks to the UK’s rising cost of living – ugh). Second, I have a tendency to take on too much. I love working for publishers, but I’ve now got it narrowed down to a few regulars, and the rest of the time, I can focus on working with indie authors. Publishers often have faster turnaround times and lower rates, so this was something I’d meant to do for a while. In total, I did 47 separate services this year! This is less than last year for a few reasons.įirst, I was aiming to reduce my workload, in particular the amount of work I was taking on for publishers versus independent authors. I take on the occasional non-fiction book for publishers if the topic is of interest to me, but my main focus remains on fiction.

If you like stats or you’re interested to see what type of things I work on – and how much work a full-time book editor does in a year – read on! Project breakdown – what did I work on?Īs always, my year has been filled with mainly novels, although I did take on some interesting non-fiction projects this year. Last year, I did a roundup of the editing projects I worked on throughout the year, so I thought I’d carry on the tradition and do one for 2022.

Dandy the Highway Lion by Stephanie Sorrell