Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis This is a specialized course designed for those who are in the editing industry (or who want to become freelance editors). This class will provide detailed discussions about the field, editing skills, and the business and IT requirements necessary to succeed. Strengthen your skills, and learn how to run your editing business like a professional.

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis This is a specialized course designed for those who are in the editing industry (or who want to become freelance editors). This class will provide detailed discussions about the field, editing skills, and the business and IT requirements necessary to succeed. Strengthen your skills, and learn how to run your editing business like a professional.

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis This is a specialized course designed for those who are in the editing industry (or who want to become freelance editors). This hands-on, interactive class will provide detailed discussions about the field, editing skills, and the business and IT requirements necessary to succeed. Add the course to your résumé, strengthen your skills, and learn how to run your ed

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis This is a specialized course designed for those who are in the editing industry (or who want to become freelance editors). This hands-on, interactive class will provide detailed discussions about the field, editing skills, and the business and IT requirements necessary to succeed. Add the course to your résumé, strengthen your skills, and learn how to run your ed

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis This is a specialized course designed for those who are in the editing industry (or who want to become freelance editors). This hands-on, interactive class will provide detailed discussions about the field, editing skills, and the business and IT requirements necessary to succeed. Add the course to your résumé, strengthen your skills, and learn how to run your ed

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis This is a specialized course designed for those who are in the editing industry (or who want to become freelance editors). This hands-on, interactive class will provide detailed discussions about the field, editing skills, and the business and IT requirements necessary to succeed. Add the course to your résumé, strengthen your skills, and learn how to run your ed

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis Being a freelance professional is more than being really good at the service you provide. It is also about learning to market your skills and your business, as well as managing your clients and customers. In this lesson, you will learn how to develop client relationships with the focus on email communication, with sample emails provided, questions to ask potent

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis This is a specialized course designed for those who are in the editing industry (or who want to become freelance editors). This class will provide detailed discussions about the field, editing skills, and the business and IT requirements necessary to succeed. Strengthen your skills, and learn how to run your editing business like a professional.

Guest: NAIWE's Executive Director April Michelle Davis From thoughts of starting a business all the way to hanging your sign “open for business!” As you prepare to become a professional freelancer, there are many things to consider such as the type of business and the protection it will offer to business tax preparations and correctly estimating quarterly payments to accurate record keeping and project status.

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis When publishers pick up your manuscript what do they look at? April Michelle Davis will show you why your opening lines (and even your first pages) are paramount to getting your manuscript published and the four main goals for your opening lines. She will provide guidance to aid you to reach these goals as they not only lead to the publishing of your manuscript

Editors are often challenged to work on multiple projects simultaneously while editing at different levels, some manuscripts requiring a developmental edit, some requiring a heavy copyedit, and others requiring a light copyedit. April Michelle Davis will discuss the differences between the various levels of editing and how to easily transition between them when working on more than one project in a single day.

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis Have you thought about learning to index books? Have you written a book and are thinking about indexing the book yourself? Do you index books but would like a refresher course? In this class, April Michelle will cover the fundamentals and theory of indexing. Once those items are understood, you will put your new-found knowledge into practice by indexing a book.

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis There are many benefits to being a member of the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors, and NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle would like to introduce you to some of them!

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis There are many benefits to being a member of the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors, and NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle would like to introduce you to some of them!

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis It takes more than good writing skills, a sharp eye for typos, a love of reading, the ability to alphabetize, a cellphone camera, etc., to be a successful writer, editor, proofreader, indexer, graphic artist, or any other freelancer. Succeeding means taking seriously the concept of being in business. You can be brilliant at what you do and still fail if you don’t

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis The more publishing professionals can do to increase efficiency in the writing, editing, or proofreading process, the more valuable they are to publishers and clients, and the more they can earn. Get the scoop on creating and using macros in Word to make your workflow faster, more efficient, more accurate, and more productive.

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis Writing is no longer a lucrative career. The most recent study by the Authors Guild, a professional organization for book writers, shows that it may not even be a livable career. In this webinar, we will discuss the theme of NAIWE membership: developing multiple streams of income. And we will discuss how to leverage your book to succeed in a career in writing!