What Should I Look for When Hiring a Book Editor?

A helpful list of the good and bad

Lynda Dietz
The Book Mechanic
Published in
9 min readAug 5, 2020

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Congratulations! You’ve written a book! Or maybe you’re still in the process of writing it, but you’ve already begun the search for an editor.

The first thing you’ll want to do before you even start looking for someone is to figure out what type of editing you need.

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Lynda Dietz
The Book Mechanic

Copyeditor. Grammar thug in the nicest, kindest way. I’m not scary, even for an editor. Find me at easyreaderediting.com