Book Editing Course
This course equips aspiring editors with essential skills for professional book editing, focusing on structural, line, and copy editing techniques to produce polished manuscripts.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This short, practical Book Editing Course teaches you how to plan revisions, structure clear editorial letters, and deliver professional line and copy edits with confident CMOS-backed decisions. Learn to strengthen contemporary fiction openings, refine voice and rhythm, fix dialogue mechanics, apply consistent grammar and punctuation, and build efficient, transferable style sheets for smooth collaboration and polished manuscripts.
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Develop skills
- Structural fiction editing: sharpen hooks, pacing, POV, and tense in openings.
- Line editing mastery: refine voice, rhythm, dialogue, and show vs. tell fast.
- CMOS-based copyediting: apply pro rules for punctuation, grammar, and numbers.
- Editorial letters that land: give clear, tactful, prioritized feedback authors trust.
- Pro style sheets: codify spelling, dialogue, and dialect for consistent book series.
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