Successful Editorial Freelancing

There’s not much that beats the excitement of starting a new direction in your career by turning freelance. Sadly, for many of us, the fear of crossing the wobbly bridge to the land of independence somehow curbs that excitement and often makes us think again. Often, we decide not to do it.

Even if you are an established freelancer, it is worth taking some time to take a step back, review your current activities, and invest in yourself to see if you could make even more of a success of it.

Whichever of these situations chimes with you, you are already displaying something of what it takes to be an effective and successful freelancer: you are willing to question yourself, to look sideways at yourself, realise you can learn from experts in your field and chip away at what you don’t know in order to be more successful.

The course will benefit:

• delegates who have already completed one of our distance learning proofreading, copy-editing or picture research courses
• editors, proofreaders and picture researchers currently employed in companies who want to make the transition to freelance status
• freelancers who would like to grow their current business.

Course materials:

You will receive all course materials when you enrol so that you can work through the programme at your own pace. When you are ready you can tackle the assignment, which will be marked by your tutor. You will be given feedback on the business plan you have created and can clarify any issues raised with the tutor.

Your own tutor:

Mary James, the author of this course, will be your tutor.

Course fees:

The cost for the Successful Editorial Freelancing by Distance Learning course is £75 for the electronic version. All materials will be emailed to you and your assignment will also be done via email.

If you would prefer to receive the course materials by post, the cost is £90, and students outside the UK need to add an additional £10 for postage. The course fee covers all course materials and assessment of the assignment. It does not cover your postage costs.

How to enrol:

To enrol, you need to click on the Add to Cart button on this page. You will be asked to register (if you have not already done so). You will at that point be able to pay immediately by credit card, request a pro-forma invoice or download and print a PDF enrolment form for payments by cheque or instalments. This form can be faxed to us at 020 8870 8985 or sent to the Publishing Training Centre, 45 East Hill, Wandsworth, London SW18 2QZ.

Money back guarantee:

If, within 10 working days of receiving your course materials (and before any assignments have been marked), you decide that the course is not for you, simply return the materials to us, in perfect condition, to receive a full refund.

Important note:

You must complete the course within 12 months of enrolment or, if you wish to continue the course, you can study for a further 12 months following payment of a re-registration fee. After this time it is possible that changes and updates will have been made to the course and that your copy is out of date. If this is the case you may have to re-enrol at this point.

Mary James combines her publishing expertise with a hands-on knowledge of the freelance market. Having set up innoved to provide research and consultancy services to publishers, Mary understands what is required to run a sustainable business from home and to develop strong working relationships with publishers in order to keep a full order book.