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‘This is exactly the book that would-be editorial freelancers need to read before setting up their businesses. Author Louise Harnby gives practical, straightforward business advice and backs it up with portraits of successful editorial professionals. The case studies are quite instructive and inspiring. I will highly recommend Business Planning for Editorial Freelancers to all of the editors I mentor.’
(Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS, KOK Edit)

‘Louise Harnby’s Business Planning for Editorial Freelancers is a savvy and realistic guide to what, for new entrants, can be a difficult field to enter. Louise combines a business-first approach with a richly informative overview of the profession that will be invaluable to newbies. In addition, the ‘practitioner focus’ sections are an outstanding feature and enable the reader to learn from several other highly respected figures in the industry. If you’re thinking of setting out on the journey to becoming a freelance editorial professional, make sure this is the first book you read.’ (Hazel Harris, Wordstitch)

‘This guide is essential reading for anyone thinking of setting themselves up as a freelance editor or, as Louise Harnby emphasizes throughout, an editorial business owner. With Top Tips and Learning Goals, every area of how to plan your new business is covered in practical terms, backed up by case studies of some of the industry’s most successful freelance editors. For those new to publishing, as well as those moving into self-employment with a publishing background, this guide offers everything you need to know to get your business off the ground and moving in the right direction.’ (Jen Hamilton-Emery, Salt Publishing)

‘With this e-book, Louise Harnby has created a resource both interesting and useful for editorial freelancers embarking on their businesses. Helpful, hopeful, yet realistic about the challenges ahead, this book will leave its readers better informed, and therefore better prepared, for their entry into this highly competitive field.

I feel sure that I can speak for production editors in other publishing houses too when I say that despite a well-populated database to choose from, a qualified, trusted freelance colleague is always sure to find themselves inundated with offers of work. Louise has, so far, declined to look into the possibility of cloning her professional self; this book is a valuable enough resource that I take the liberty of predicting that newer colleagues using it to chart their own trajectories will ensure that she does not need to.’ (Madhubanti Bhattacharyya, Edward Elgar Publishing)