With a traditional publisher, an author does not have to worry
about editing their book.
I am constantly amused at self published authors who want to have a phone conversation with
me about editing their book manuscripts.
So, here is some hard and fast advice
about editing your book.
Not exact matches
In 2003, I
edited the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's classic text, The Intelligent Investor, which Warren Buffett has called «by far the best
book about investing ever written.»
I haven't mentioned Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald,
edited by Welty biographer Suzanne Marrs and Macdonald biographer Tom Nolan (the most touching collection of letters I've read in years), or the latest volume in The Complete Letters of Henry James, or Catherine Lampert's superb Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting (which the painter Bruce Herman will be writing
about for
Books & Culture), or James Curtis's fascinating and beautifully produced William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come.
If you know
about it once, you know
about it always, or you have to accept that your bible is just a
book written by men that has been
edited and modified throughout the centuries and has no real bearing.
Escpecially in the NT writings, when new information came
about in the early church it is resonable that this new info would have been
edited into the existing
books.
I don't count the
books I write in that list, which really should count for
about 10
books each (I wrote 3 in 2013), since not only did I read the
book while writing it, but I also read it and re-read it in the process of typesetting,
editing, and proofreading the
book....
«We're talking
about a
book that has been
edited, then re-
edited, then re-editted again, then re-interpretted, then
edited, then re-
edited, then
edited again, then re-interpretted... and over again.»
I was talking
about the centuries of
editing up to that point — multiple authors, rewriting etc, as
books of the Torah coalesced.
``... more and more students of this gospel are coming to believe that the inconsistencies were probably produced by subsequent
editing...» There are more, similar statements, which for me raise questions
about that entire
book.
Abingdon has opened a new office in Atlanta, specifically for
editing academic
books; Westminster / John Knox has affirmed its interest in serious theological publishing; and Augsburg Fortress has sought to reassure those concerned
about the future of the Fortress tradition.
The preface to a recent collection of articles by psychologists and psychiatrists notes that «the Kübler - Ross
book was the beginning of a frank and vivid discussion
about the implications of death in our modern society» (The Interpretation of Death,
edited by Henrik M. Ruitenbeek [Jason Aronson, 1973]-RRB-.
The KJV didn't
edit out anything, any 20
books or what have you; even if it did, it wouldn't matter, because we could see it, since modern archaelogists have found various manuscripts in Israel, Egypt, and the Sinai penninsula of the complete Bible dating from 250BCE to 350CE, which the KJV translators didn't even know
about.
All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary,
Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical
books, and the New Testament,
Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood,
Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy,
Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much
About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know
About the Good
Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
I'm reprinting it here,
edited, because like Susan's column and Kipnis»
book, it raises an essential question
about the role of love in a marriage: If we marry for love, shouldn't it be OK to end the marriage when love is no longer present or if we are not content to accept «mature love» — aka, a sexless, roomatelike existence — as its replacement?
In Episode 98 of
Edit Your Life, Asha and Gretchen talk
about her new
book, The Four Tendencies, in which she lays out a simple framework for understanding our internal motivations (Obligers, Upholders, Questioners, or Rebels).
With an avid interest in visual arts, she enjoys writing and
editing for The Licensing
Book and The Toy
Book, leading trade magazines
about toys — the first art forms we encounter as children.
Hey @Alissa, I'm with you
about the Healthy Sleep Habits
book... I LOVE it but I also would love to
edit it for easier usage.
Something to Think
About: Figuring Out What's Important and Learning to Defend It Written by Aunt Kimmie Bebo;
Edited by Mimi Dunham Create Space Independent Publishing Platform Gold — Young Adult
Books: Inspirational / Motivational
However, rather than simply accepting the opinion of states and critical Western scholars as the point of reference, the
edited book Responsibility to Protect: Cultural Perspectives in the Global South by Rama Mani and Tom Weiss addresses the important and so far under - researched question of what scholars and activists from the global south really think
about the R2P principle and how the R2P implementation process can account for those southern concerns and insights.
If you look at this
book he
edited, called Crossroads, he authored an introduction wherein he talked
about pumping his own gas in the wake of his loss to McCall in the Democratic Primary.
About this
Book: Modern Prometheus
Editing the Human Genome with CRISPR - CAS9 Jim Kozubek Cambridge University Press, 2016
During his 1st year as a Ph.D. student, Añel
edited a
book for students
about the free GNU / Linux operating system.
She writes
about her experiences and lessons along the way on her blog She's written two plant - based children's
books and is currently
editing her memoir; «The Vegan with a Leather Purse.»
To this day, I get the
book out and read it to dad and adlib the text stating, «Jack Schomer had three sons: Jason, John and Lincoln» and, my
edits of «and two beautiful daughters», since the author, never mentioned Dina or I. Dad laughs every time I read it because he knows, it was all
about the boys.
An
edited excerpt from Body Respect: What Conventional Health
Books Leave out, Get Wrong and Just Plain Fail to Understand
about Weight, by Linda Bacon, PhD, and Lucy Aphramor, PhD, RD.
I freelance
edited / coauthored this
book on what dying has to teach us
about living well, by Frank Ostaseski.
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About Blog When you need a
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20 years ago in Brisbane, I had a life - changing accident, back here in Hasting's I have some pretty physical dishabille, I'm writing a
book about my overseas adventures 10 years after my accident, I
edit it myself, I would «LOVE» to meet a woman who «LOVE»S» life & is willing to grow old with me...
She's blogged
about her dating experiences for Honeymag.com and been a
book editor for Harlequin and BET
Books, where she
edited national bestselling and award - winning romance authors.
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READINGS
Books about all aspects of filmmaking and film culture Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media - Making
edited by Yvonne Welbon and Alexandra Juhasz, reviewed by Nick Davis; William Faulkner at Twentieth Century - Fox: The Annotated Screenplays
edited by Sarah Gleeson - White, reviewed by Nick Pinkerton; Everybody Sing!
But it's also
about the subtle and not - so - subtle negotiations between being a journalist and being a groupie, which gives it some passing relation to the fascinating (if poorly
edited and organized) interview
book Crowe recently did with Billy Wilder, Conversations With Wilder.
A new
book edited by the former Chief Executive of the National Apprenticeship Service, and University of Winchester Visiting Professor, David Way is to provide crucial insight from business and education leaders
about the state of apprenticeships and what more needs to be done to ensure their long - term success.
In this edition of the EdCast, Malone, director of institutional advancement at the Institute for Educational Leadership, discusses the collaborative process of
editing a
book with diverse authors who have varying opinions
about education reform.
In this edition of the EdCast, Malone, director of institutional advancement at the Institute for Educational Leadership, discusses the collaborative process of
editing a
book with diverse authors who have varying opinions
about...
The new
book, Distributed Leadership in Practice,
edited by Assistant Professor John Diamond and Northwestern University Professor James P. Spillane, explores how a distributed perspective is different from other frameworks for thinking
about leadership in schools.
If you want to read more
about this, I recommend the
book Common Formative Assessments: How to Connect Standards - Based Instruction and Assessment,
edited by Larry Ainsworth and Donald Viegut.
Ironically, Hess
edited and published a
book of essays in 2005
about the growing influence of foundations.
An article on Wednesday
about a surprising reversal by the education historian Diane Ravitch of almost every position she once took on American schooling misstated the number of
books she has either written or
edited since leaving government in 1993.
A recent
book on the topic
edited by Matt Hern entitled Deschooling Our Lives (1997) provides practical examples «
about people, individuals, families, and communities taking control of the direction and shape of their lives... and homelearning as a fundamentally cooperative social project».
EAGnews has previously reported
about the social justice math activists» tricks in a
book called «Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers,»
edited by Peterson.
Thus far, there have been four total
books written
about value - added models (VAMs) in education: one (2005) scholarly,
edited book that was published prior to our heightened policy interest in VAMs; one (2012) that is less scholarly but more of a field guide on how to use VAM - based data; my recent (2014) scholarly
book; and another recent (2011) scholarly
book written by Doug Harris.
Permit me to share a few of my takeaways from the conference — things that authors might not know
about the folks they hire to
edit their
books.
If you're at all unsure
about whether your
book's structure is working, it's a good idea to take it to an editor who has experience with your genre and with developmental
editing.
After everything is done, your
book synopsis has been approved or
edited, your
book cover is done, and your
book is visible on the internet, it's time to think
about one other very important thing when it comes to -LSB-...]
Publishing Perspectives had a chance to interview her by email
about the challenges of
editing and publishing
books in translation.