Proofreading: 12 things you need to know, Part 2 - a podcast by Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)

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Want to become a professional proofreader? Discover 6 more key pieces of information you must know before you embark on your new career.

Listen to find out more about

  • How it requires a lot of hard work to build and sustain a proofreading business
  • Why having periods of no work isn’t something you have to accept as given
  • Why grammar- and spell-checking technology hasn’t made proofreaders redundant
  • How it’s a myth that all proofreading work is done in-house
  • How proofreading means the different things to different client types
  • Whether word of mouth is a good enough promotion strategy

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

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