Speakers
Session 6 – breakout seminars (running concurrently)
This session is best suited to fiction editors and proofreaders who want to grow their client list.
This session will talk about how to market ourselves and how to overcome our marketing fears. From the perspective of a fiction editor who works almost exclusively with indie authors (and who has had absolutely zero formal marketing training), I will provide a behind-the-scenes view of what has worked (and what has not) to fill my diary with bookings and raise my profile as a real, human editor. I will cover websites (content, blogs and newsletters), social media (what to post and where to post) and directories/memberships (which ones are useful, and which ones aren't). The aim is that everyone will go away with at least one marketing step they can take immediately, and a plan for growing their marketing activity in the future.
Manda is a fiction editor living in a hamlet in the heart of Winnie-the-Pooh country (deepest, darkest Sussex, England). She's been connected with the publishing industry for her whole working life, having worked as an in-house Production Editor for Butterworths, LexisNexis, Martindale-Hubbell and Reed Elsevier.
In 2019, she set up her own freelance fiction editing business and now offers developmental editing, line-editing and proofreading to indie authors.
She specialises in Fantasy, Romance, Women’s Fiction, Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction.
When not editing, you’ll find her navigating the joys of parenting three daughters, vegetable gardening (badly) and looking after her two elderly (smelly) black Labradors and five rescue chickens. She also runs a company with her husband that specialises in traditional basketry, rustic fencing and teaching all things wood-related.
Her aim in life is to bring a bit of positivity and kindness to the world and she would be delighted to receive any LinkedIn connection requests from like-minded editors.
She is proud to be a Professional Member of the CIEP and you can find out more about her and what she does on her website: www.mandawaller.co.uk