Grandma Girl here, I'm Nion Fog Fog Fog, and today I am so excited to share with you

nuggets of wisdom from Aaron Brenner.

Aaron is the owner of Right Touch editing,

former owner of the website copy editing in business,

former instructor at the San Diego copy editing certificate program,

and very, very recently, the winner of the prestigious Robinson Prize

for editing excellence and service to the editing community and the reason Aaron

is here with us today though is because she is the author of this fabulous new book, The Chicago Guide for freelance editors.

And Aaron, thank you.

Welcome, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me, Minion,

and I'm so excited to be on Grandma Girl.

Well, I have to tell you if I were still teaching journalism students, I would assign this book in my class because it is valuable not just for copy editors

but for anyone who wants to be a freelance editor writer or sort of just a

freelancer in general. It's a comprehensive guide to

starting and running a freelance business then with you know a bunch of wonderful

tidbits specifically for editors and writers.

Thank you.

Yeah, so we, and for everyone listening, you know, we're going to focus on the tidbits that will be useful for all of you who write and edit even if you're not a freelance editor.

And then at the end, we'll talk about, about you know if you're thinking about making the leap you know what

advice Aaron might have for you too so Aaron is this your first book it's my first book in the sense of a traditionally published book.

I've done a little smaller projects.

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