Senior Development Editor / Mentor

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Basis: Contract or Permanent
Location: Remote or office
Compensation: To be negotiated

Responsibilities:

Liaise directly with authors, providing mentoring.

Suggest learning path for the authors’ best development

Help develop the plot of their ideas.

Help improve the writing style of the author.

Provide development edits, copy edits, line edits and proof reading for manuscripts, to publication standard.

Requirements:

Must be a good communicator.

Be dynamic and enthusiastic.

Love literature, fiction.

Be patient and be able to guide an author towards drawing out the best writing style and plot for the novel.

Experience required:

At least 3 years’ experience of development / copy / line editing and proofreading.

Qualifications Required:

Advanced member of SfEP

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