Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association In this session, APA Style experts will answer frequently asked questions about APA Style, note areas that copyeditors should watch for, dispel some APA Style myths, and share resources the APA Style team has created for learning APA Style.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Bowker If you can click a mouse and type on a keyboard, you have all the skills you need to build your own great-looking website! Bowker has done the hard work for you and created a complete website solution specially designed for authors. You get all the elements you need to construct an eye-catching website that will attract and engage the readers you want to reach.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Cadman Training Multiple tools claim to help editors and writers speed up and improve the quality of their work. But how do you know which tools to choose, which are easy to use, reliable, and good value for the money? To help you determine what’s worth your investment of time and money, Hilary Cadman will share three of her favorite tools: PerfectIt, PhraseExpress, and ProWritingAid.

Guest: NAIWE's Benefit Partner Fictionary The editing industry is full of secrets. And one of them is “All writers should perform their own story edit.” We’re talking about a structural edit of fiction. Kristina Stanley will share why story editing is essential and the top 5 steps in a structural edit of a novel, and you’ll leave this session with actionable advice you can immediately apply to your book.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Fictionary Are you a fiction editor who wants to elevate your editing skills? Perhaps you’re a copyeditor looking to expand your business into story editing. Or are you looking for a method to edit consistently and quickly every time? Editing a novel is a complex, cognitive task. This webinar shows you the critical story elements to evaluate when performing a story edit.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Fictionary Writers know the excitement of typing “The End” on their first draft. Before you share your story with others, you owe it to yourself to tell the best possible story. Learn how to story edit to refine a story readers will enjoy reading from beginning to end! Maybe you’re a structural editor for fiction and are worried that you’re overly influencing a client’s manuscript.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Intelligent Editing If you use CMOS, the collaboration between the Manual and PerfectIt offers a new way to check your documents. This session shows how you can use The Chicago Manual of Style for PerfectIt to save time in your editing work. It takes a deep dive into how the style works and what it finds so that you understand how and when to apply it.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Intelligent Editing No one became an editor because they like checking for consistency of hyphenation and capitalization. Thankfully, there is a faster way to do it! PerfectIt is an add-in for Word that speeds up checking while still leaving editors in control of every decision. Thousands of editors around the world use PerfectIt to fix these small details so they can focus on the work.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Intelligent Editing Spending hours checking that every detail conforms to a style manual is time-consuming and can distract you from the most important work of substantive editing. There is an easier way! This session will show how you can use PerfectIt to select a style sheet, build your own custom style sheet, and check your preferences. The session will explain how to use PerfectIt.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner the J. Rosen Group You have written an amazing book and it has been published . . . now what? For your book to achieve significant sales and success it’s essential you have a strong and comprehensive marketing program in place. This is where we come in.

Guest: NAIWE Benefit Partner Officially Social Alison Lukin, owner of Officially Social, will address the main roadblocks of social media success. She’ll give insight on content choices, calendars, and which platforms to use, along with other helpful hints — all for book editors! Whether you’re a book editor or a writer, this webinar will be full of helpful advice to level up your social media presence.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner ProWritingAid Editing your manuscript sentence by sentence can be daunting, but line editing is a crucial part of the writing process. Take the fear out of line editing with a structured approach to improving your prose. Learn to elevate your storytelling with a step-by-step approach to line editing. Learn to harness editing technology to breathe life into your manuscript with ease.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner ProWritingAid As writers we often spend too much time focusing on what our ideas are instead of how to communicate those ideas most effectively. If we don’t sharpen our sentences with our readers in mind, then our ideas will get lost and our writing will be less engaging. In this presentation, ProWritingAid will walk you through five key ways to improve the craft of your writing.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner ProWritingAid As nice as it would be, writing your novel isn’t over when you type “The End.” In fact, the actual work is just beginning. During the editing process, your novel will go from rough first draft to thrilling final manuscript. In this workshop, a ProWritingAid rep will walk you through the most important edits you should make to your manuscript to ensure it’s publish-ready.