Finding an editor... using Reedsy

Choosing your editor is possibly one of the most important decisions you'll make if you're self-publishing, I reckon. It's a close call between the editor and the cover designer. Both roles are there to make your book stand out from the crowd and shine. They are the final polish. An unedited (or badly edited) book can be the difference between me rating a book as 2* in a review or 5* and I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

I've had two amazing editors so far, but both of them preferred to edit crime and what I need now is an editor who likes fantasy, so, I'm in the process of finding a new editor for the Trilogy. It's daunting! There are a gazillion editors out there. Even a quick look at Joanna Penn's list of approved editors is enough to make your heart sink into your boots and never reappear, because there are just so many. Where do you even start?

Well, where I've started, is to look on Reedsy. Why? Because it was less daunting, I could easily select what I was looking for to draw up a shortlist and I could send the same brief to five editors.

There are hundreds of editors on Reedsy (as well as cover designers and website designers and so on), located all over the world. The process of shortlisting potential editors is very easy.

Once you've set up an account with Reedsy (name, email address), you can then see this side panel.


If you select Marketplace it takes you to this selection panel:


Here, you can select what it is you're looking for. I was looking for a copy-editor, for fiction, genres fantasy and urban fantasy, language English UK:
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