Sessions
Results-Driven Networking for Freelance Editors
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Fri
Freelancing Success: Where Networking and Volunteering Meet (panel discussion)
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Sat
Editors as Authors: Behind the Scenes of Publishing Your Own Work (panel discussion)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Sat
As editor and owner at Word Cat Editorial Services, Brittany Dowdle is a freelance editor with over eleven years’ experience in the publishing industry. Specializing in copyediting and proofreading for publishers, she has edited the work of best-selling traditionally published authors and award-winning indie authors. Together with her coauthor, Linda Ruggeri, Brittany wrote Networking for Freelance Editors, which won an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award in 2022.
Brittany graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Georgia with a degree in English. She is a founding member of the Editorial Freelancers Association’s Diversity Initiative (now Diversity, Equity & Belonging) and helped design the Welcome Program, acting as its codirector in 2019–2020. She continues to volunteer for the Welcome Program and other local nonprofits.
Brittany lives in the north Georgia mountains with her adventurous husband, their three cats, six chickens, and many wild neighbors of the winged, finned, and four-legged variety. When she’s not editing, writing, or exploring in the woods, Brittany may be found reading a book in a patch of sunshine.