Sophie Playle

Learn to edit novels with confidence and skill.

Whether you’re new to editing or looking to deepen your skills, Liminal Pages delivers online training to freelance fiction editors who take their craft seriously.

Liminal Pages offers four core courses in sentence-level and structural fiction editing. These can be taken individually or in combination, depending on the services you want to offer.

Developmental Editing: Fiction Theory

What you need to know to help authors improve their novels. Learn how to assess an author’s manuscript and help them reshape it into something stronger.

Developmental Editing: In Practice

How to conduct your professional service and work with clients. Learn how to assess, quote, complete and deliver a developmental editing project.

Tea and Commas: The Foundations of Line and Copy-Editing Fiction

What you need to know to offer sentence-level fiction editing. Learn the practical side of on-screen mark up as well as the nuances of what to change in an author’s manuscript.

Coffee and Clauses: The Art of Line and Copy-Editing Fiction

How to edit sentences with discernment, skill and creative intelligence. Learn to work confidently at the sentence level, helping authors sharpen their prose without flattening their voice.

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Liminal Pages helps you build a fiction-editing business with confidence and skill. I believe ethical editing requires both competency and empathy. I value fair exchange, making meaningful support accessible to authors while ensuring editors are properly compensated. And I hold that working with novels is a noble pursuit: creative writing brings pleasure and connection to a world that urgently needs both.