Self-Editing Your Novel: An editor's tips to make your work shine

Are you a fiction writer? Do you need help with editing your work prior to publishing? Self-Editing Your Novel is designed for all those who are writing fiction, namely novels, but it could also be used as a guide for those writing short stories and even non-fiction. So whether you’re writing about love and romance, an epic journey, a family saga, murder, mystery, or some other genre of creative fiction, this is the book for you. Drawing on her years as a writer, a manuscript assessor and as an editor and proofreader, Kathy Stewart has put together a guide that should enable you to avoid the common pitfalls that might prevent your novel from reaching a wider audience. Kathy owns and runs an editing and appraisal service situated on the Gold Coast of Australia. She has always been passionate about writing and has worked as a professional editor since 2004. Many of the books she has worked on are now selling in bookstores and online and many others are in the pipeline. Her manuscripts, The Chameleon Factor and Race Against Time, were shortlisted and longlisted respectively for the 2010 Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger Award in the UK.