Guest: Conference Speaker Dick Margulis

Self-publishing or independent authors have become one of the biggest, and often best, potential clients for freelancers, especially professional editors, proofreaders, indexers, illustrators, photographers, and book designers. Working with these clients often means shepherding them through the publishing process. In this webinar, discover how to manage this potentially profitable side of freelancing.

Here’s what you can expect to learn in this class:

• How to explain the book production process to your clients

• The best kinds of services to help your clients achieve their goals

• A framework for partnering with other service providers

Duration: 1 hour, 27 minutes

Dick Margulis is chief cook and bottle washer at Dick Margulis Creative Services, where his focus is on thoughtful editing, appropriate design, expert production, and comprehensive project management for publishers of all sizes. He began correcting his elders as a small child and has been editing one thing or another for over half a century. As his handwriting has always been execrable, Margulis learned to set type at an early age and has been studying and practicing typography ever since. For the last 17 years, he has been working with individuals and companies to help them produce and publish high-quality books.

Margulis has more than four decades of experience in helping companies and authors communicate effectively, internally and externally. He has made significant contributions to client projects such as corporate identity, including logo design; user manuals and technical documentation; web and intranet sites; books and magazines; and much more. He is known for his deep understanding of and skill in typography and book production.

Margulis also is a popular go-to resource for colleagues and independent authors interested in book publishing and memoirs. He is the co-author with Karin Cather of the invaluable book The Paper It’s Written On: Defining Your Relationship with an Editing Client.