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Your bestseller needs its best editor

Warmest Welcome to our Lizzy’s Xmas Party Friends!

Authors who use the Book Boss Editing Checklist to guide them through edits:

  • Edit Faster: Their Editing Checklist shows them where to start and what to work on next.
  • Edit Smarter: They develop their Editing Checklist so it contains all the edits they need to do.
  • Publish Sooner: They can trust their editing process and just follow their Editing Checklist.
  • Get Back to Doing What They Love: Telling their stories and enthralling their readers!

Let Angela James tell you about Book Boss Editing Checklist:

Free to friends of Lizzy’s Xmas Party, the Book Boss Editing Checklist course gives you:

  • The Editing Checklist in 3 Formats: PDF, a Notion template and a Google Sheet.
  • 4 Time-Sensitive Video Lessons: In these closed-captioned and transcribed lessons you'll learn how to use your Editing Checklist plus how to approach edits, ideas for working out how long your edits will take, and Angela's advice on the editor-author relationship.
  • Private Podcast of All Lessons: Instantly access your course podcast feed and plan your listening.
  • Immediate and Ongoing Access: This covers the course, the podcast feed and all course resources.
  • Full Support: Support for your learning as well as technical support from our dedicated team.

A Reliable Editing Process
Needs a Reliable Editing Checklist:
BOOK BOSS EDITING CHECKLIST

$ 0 For Lizzy's Xmas Party!
  • 4 captioned and transcribed video lessons
  • Private podcast feed so you can learn on-the-go
  • Learn at your own pace with ongoing access
Free! Get Editing Checklist Now
Angela James knows what makes a book work.
Caraway Carter
Caraway CarterAuthor

So you've finished writing your novel...

🎉 Congratulations! 🎉

How's your editing process looking?

Feeling confident?

You know where to start, right?
What to do first?
What to do next?

You do have an editing checklist, don't you?

Oh.

Don't stress, I can help!

I'm about to give you the same checklist I've used throughout my 20-year editing career...

Your key to editing success.

Your reliable, repeatable editing checklist.

  • From content editing to proofreading the editing checklist lays out the foundations of each editing stage so you have a 100% reliable guide to your editing process.
  • Yes, your editing checklist! There isn't a one-size-fits-all approach to editing, though there are editing best practices. You'll learn how to strategize and build an editing checklist that works for your books.
  • In 4 course video lessons (also available as a free private podcast) I'll personally guides you through how to develop your checklist, how to approach edits in a smart, efficient way, how long your edits should take and what an ideal editor-author relationship looks like.

Shut the door on editing frustration.

  • So you're daunted by edits, exhausted by them, even a bit embarrassed by how lost you feel. Trust me, every author's been where you are. Every single one. What you need is a strategic editing checklist.
  • The difference between the authors you love and the ones you've forgotten? It's consistency, and for that you need a solid checklist to guide your editing process in a reliable way, so it keeps working book after book.
  • No author has to wonder where to start edits, what to do next or where to stop. Develop your editing checklist and become your own best editor.

Learn, Plan, Publish, Grow
BOOK BOSS EDITING CHECKLIST

$ 0 Happy Lizzy's Xmas Party!
  • 4 captioned and transcribed video lessons
  • Private podcast feed so you can learn on-the-go
  • Learn at your own pace with ongoing access
Free! Get Editing Checklist Now

The origin story...

I can't stress this enough:

Editing is a process.

Not only that, it's a multi-part process — content editing, line editing, copy editing, proofreading.

Teaching authors how to develop a comprehensive plan for their editing process is why I started my signature course Before You Hit Send — and Before You Hit Send is where the Editing Checklist debuted!

Your Editing Checklist is critical to your editing process. It's your guide, your rationale and your fallback, all in one!

A little over a year ago I decided to pursue freelance editing. I'd started taking editing courses for author-side self-editing, but I enjoyed it so much I thought I'd try to make a go of it. I did a few training courses, but hands-down Before You Hit Send was the best investment of all of them. I launched my business last September and I'm currently booked up and it's been a great experience so far.
Andria Henry
Andria HenryAuthor and Editor

4 Expert Editing Lessons.
All with Closed Captions.
All with Transcripts.

The Editing Checklist explains what the checklist is, how it’s essential and why you should treat it as a living document.

How to Approach Edits takes you through the 4 stages of edits and the suggested—and professionally preferred—order in which to tackle them.

How Long Should Edits Take? discusses this often-asked question and gives you ideas for how to use the Editing Checklist to develop your own estimates that work for your books.

The Editor-Author Relationship takes you inside this critical professional relationship and shows you how a deep understanding of your editor’s work will make your books better and your writing career more fulfilled.

Your course includes:

  • The Editing Checklist in 4 formats: PDF, Word Doc, Notion template and Google Sheet.
  • 4 schedule-sensitive video lessons perfectly timed for lunchbreak learning.
  • Closed captions and full transcripts.
  • A course podcast feed so you can download and listen on the go.
  • Immediate and ongoing access to the course in our dedicated learning portal.
  • Expert training you can trust from an experienced, in-demand editor and author career professional.
  • Access to The Publishing Insider Facebook group where you can ask me questions about what you're learning.
Wow! So much information – thank you. Details I hadn't thought about. I'll be referring back to this in the future.
Dorothy Brockington BinsAuthor

FAQs

YES! The strategic, analytic work you’ll do in this course to build your own editing checklist has helped authors at many different stages in their careers. If you don’t have a reliable, repeatable editing process, this is for you.

Not necessarily, but it will benefit you to have a completed short fiction that you can work on. You can begin building your editing process by editing short fiction, and refine and develop it further as you edit your novels.

My focus is (most) genre fiction. I specialize in romance, mystery and women’s fiction, so I use a lot of examples of those genres, but my courses work for anyone writing any sub-genre of romance, mystery, thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, etc.

Also, while my courses aren’t specifically geared toward nonfiction writing, nonfiction writers have benefited from my editing approach and how I think about editing concepts, so you’re most welcome to take this course and develop your nonfiction editing checklist!

The video lessons are presented with closed captions, and transcripts are added to each lesson for both hearing impaired authors and authors who learn best by reading.

We also endeavor to make all digital text content accessible to screen readers.

If we have overlooked an accessibility accommodation you need, please email us at support@angelajames.co

Please click on the chat bubble at the lower right of this screen to leave me a message, or email us at support@angelajames.co and I or my assistant Dan will respond as soon as possible.

Book Boss Editing Checklist is for you if:

  • You don't know where to start editing, what the stages of editing are, or what to do as you work through your book.
  • You've edited a book or two but you've struggled to create a solid, repeatable process with a concrete checklist.
  • You plan to hire an editor but you want to save time and money by giving your editor the cleanest manuscript you can.

Book Boss Editing Checklist may not be for you if:

Hi, I'm Angela James

20 years in the publishing industry, 100s of books edited, 2 successful ebook imprints launched and directed (Samhain and Harlequin’s Carina Press) and dozens of novels edited for private clients… 

And the most important part of every editorial job is still reading!

Being a reader’s favorite experience is your #1 goal as an author and an editor of your own books.

I created the Editing Checklist as part of my signature course Before You Hit Send (click to register for the 2023 edition!) and I’m thrilled to offer this low-price course focused on helping you develop your unique editing process.

Get Your Book Boss Editing Checklist

$ 0 Free to Friends of Lizzy's Xmas Party
  • 4 captioned and transcribed video lessons
  • Private podcast feed so you can learn on-the-go
  • Learn at your own pace with ongoing access
Happy Lizzy's Xmas Party! Get Editing Checklist Now!

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