Diane and Maria, thank you both for your very useful responses. I'd already thought that this site would be a very good way of finding an editor when it gets to that stage and this is clearly the case! 

I've just seen that Diane was clearly typing out a response to one of my questions in response to someone else while I was typing it!

I'd be really interested to know what anyone with experience of this thinks is the best way of going about finding a creative editor. Should we look for people in our genre (I'm currently working on a YA paranormal) or do editors tend to cover a...

Susan - "you do have to work Twitter as you would a party" - oh no, I'm terrible at working parties. I just stay with the people I already know, occasionally joining in conversations when one of my more sociable friends talks to somebody else. I...

As a tech early adopter my husband's constantly had his smart phone and laptop out doing this kind of stuff for ages to build his techie profile, while I've been burying my head in Word with tunnel-vision on just doing my writing. It's only recently...