Editorial Project Management

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.

Editorial project managers make publications happen, taking raw content through quality control and design processes to produce a finished product.

Editorial Project Management outlines the key concepts of editorial project management, including briefing, scheduling and budgeting. It highlights the importance of communication, and other soft skills, in guiding a project through its production while meeting stakeholders' requirements and getting the best out of suppliers.

This guide is for you if:

you want to know what editorial project management isyou are thinking about adding editorial project management to your skillsetyou are considering taking on editorial project management responsibilities.

Abi Saffrey has worked on and managed editorial projects since she started out as an editorial assistant in 2000. After nine years working for publishers, business information providers and quangos, she started her own editorial business and now focuses on project management and copyediting.

Emily Kopieczek has been in the field of editorial project management for over a decade. She worked in-house for two publishers from 2012 to 2019, culminating as a Senior Managing Editor. She now runs a business providing editorial services for the ELT sector, specialising in project management, copyediting, proofreading and digital reviews. She holds the APM PMQ.