Networking for Freelance Editors: Practical Strategies for Networking Success

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Though networking may seem like an unwieldy, overwhelming task, especially for freelancers, this practical workbook will show that building the network you need and want is completely within your power. Step by step, we will help you create a network that is uniquely yours, based on your goals, your personal communication style, and your everyday activities. This book is for editors, proofreaders, indexers, fact-checkers, translators, writers, and anyone else pursuing a freelance career in the publishing industry.

“Networking for Freelance Editors teaches you how to engage with others in ways that show rather than tell that you’re ready to help, ready to engage, ready to talk, and ready to listen. The result is a targeted strategy that gets you noticed and frames you as an editor who’s part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Dowdle and Ruggeri have created a truly outstanding how-to resource—one I highly recommend for any editor at any stage of their career. It’s networking guidance that actually makes a difference. Read it and do it.”
—Louise Harnby, Fiction Editor and Proofreader

Whether you’re early in your freelance editing career, an industry veteran transitioning to freelance work, or an experienced freelancer who wants to network with less stress and more to show for it, Networking for Freelance Editors will show you how to

identify and dismiss the stale, stress-inducing ideas about networking that are holding you back;
discover an easy, incremental approach that gives you a foundation for building long-lasting professional relationships; and
leverage your strengths to create a networking practice that gets results.
By reimagining your approach to networking and using the worksheets provided with Networking for Freelance Editors, you’ll build the network you need right now and also the one you can rely on tomorrow. Conquer impostor syndrome, wasted effort, and overwhelm, and grow the network you want—the one that provides support, connections, and opportunities.

This book has been written and produced for print accessibility.

From the Publisher

Successful Networking in Your Comfort Zone

Networking for Freelance Editors teaches you how to think of networking in a fresh way that’s based on what you already know how to do, on what you already do really well.

Expand your knowledge and resources even more: use the worksheets with your mastermind group, local editing chapter, editing class, or with colleagues.

The truth is that you’ve been networking all of your life with varying degrees of success—we all have. What’s going to change today is how you think of networking!

Get Started Today On A Path of Networking Success

Practical steps within your comfort zone

“From generally good advice (like joining editing directories and professional groups), to providing specific resources for self-assessment and network planning (like quarterly check-ins and networking mind maps), this book is the full package to jump-starting the next step in any editing career.” Editors’ Weekly Newsletter, Editors Canada

Goal-oriented worksheets
Real-life examples
Introvert friendly
Appendix with useful resources
5 specific networking tactics you can start using today!

A Workbook with Accessibility in Mind

When writing and developing Networking for Freelance Editors the authors made mindful and concious choices to ensure that the paperback, hardcover, and e-book versions had a font that was clear and easy to read, that the pages and graphics had good color contrast, that the images and worksheets had proper Alt+text descriptions, and that any type of boldface, italics, sidebars, pull-outs, and additional graphic content could be easily read and interpreted by screen readers.

What People Are Saying

“Brittany Dowdle and Linda Ruggeri guide us through this process in their new book, Networking for Freelance Editors, a valuable resource for editors at any stage of their careers. Packed with personal anecdotes, worksheets, sidebars, and more, this book has a unique message: that, by giving back to the editing community we will make connections, immediately or in the future.

Written in a warm, inclusive tone, Networking for Freelance Editors will appeal to all kinds of editors, regardless of their location or personality type. The advice Brittany and Linda provide for growing a network or building one from scratch is practical and actionable, and it can be applied right away. Typically, editors encourage writers to find their voice in order to hone their craft. Brittany and Linda remind editors to find their voice in order to build their networks.”

Sangeeta Mehta, Developmental editor of trade fiction

Chair, Diversity Initiative, Editorial Freelancers Association, June 2021

Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Insightful Editor (Linda Ruggeri) (October 15, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 182 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 173642050X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1736420508
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.41 x 10 inches