Workshop: How to Self-Edit like an Editor

You’ve typed “The End,” you’re proud as hell, and suddenly it hits you: now you have to edit the damn thing. The revisions stage can be intimidating and frustrating for many writers, but it doesn’t have to be! Join Molly Rookwood, the owner of Rookwood Editing, to learn how you can use the tools of professional editors to gain much-needed distance from your story and break the revisions process into manageable steps.

Molly Rookwood will lead this workshop on self-editing on Wednesday, March 26th 2025 @ 7pm. In-person attendance at Trident Booksellers & Cafe (Halifax) includes coffee or tea, and a hybrid Meets option will be available.

Molly Rookwood is the owner of Rookwood Editing, providing content editing, copyediting, and Jewish sensitivity reading to self-publishing and querying fiction writers. She started her company after graduating from Toronto Metropolitan University’s publishing program, and she has served as a volunteer and/or co-chair of local, national, and international editing organizations. When she's not editing, Molly teaches writing skills at the University of King's College as the Foundation Year Program writing coach, and in her free time she writes romance novels about Jane Austen scholars falling in love. As an editor, Molly’s favourite genres to work with are science fiction, romance, and fantasy, and in her free time, Molly plays D&D, Frosthaven, and a whole bunch of video games.

Molly can be reached via email at [email protected] or through her website at www.rookwoodediting.com

Host or Publisher Trident Booksellers & Cafe