CIEP guides provide a short, basic introduction to the various skills and knowledge needed to work as an editorial professional. They are intended for copyeditors and proofreaders, both practising and potential, and will also prove useful to others involved in publishing content, including businesses, organisations, agencies, students and authors.

Developmental Editing for Fiction is for you if you want to find out more about the knowledge, skills and tasks required to developmental edit fiction. It provides:

what you need to know in order to offer developmental editing as a servicean overview of the different methods of developmental editingideas on how to get starteda comprehensive list of resources.

It also covers different practical approaches to providing feedback on a manuscript so that you can help an author redraft their book to better reach its potential.