Finding
different editors for your book will take advantage of each one's specific talent.
Not exact matches
Besides seeing the importance and ubiquity of literacy in school settings, I also experienced the field from a
different angle as an
editor for an academic
book publishing company.
Editor's note: Goodreads is very
different from other social platforms, so you want to learn how to use it effectively
for book marketing before jumping in with both feet.
After your
book has been checked by a copy
editor and revised, you are ready to have it formatted
for different types of media.
How, then, do you explain that the small epress I worked
for is capable of keeping track of the percentages paid to authors authors and
editors (typically 35 %
for the author and 10 %
for the
editor)
for several hundred
books sold through multiple retail outlets (all with
different net payouts to the publisher) over a period of four years?
Editors, authors, agents, and publishers may submit more than one
book, in the same categories or
different ones, but an entry fee is charged
for each
book entered.
For Pentecost, I used five
different editors [multiple structural
editors, a line -
editor and a copyeditor], so that cost the most of all the
books.
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There are
different kinds of
editors to help make your
book professional and primed
for rave reviews.
In a previous post titled, Six tips
for finding the right
editor for your
book, I outlined some ideas on how to find the best
editor for your
book, but in this post I want to identify and explain the
different type of editing you might need
for your
book.
For my newest
books, my
editor, Patricia Aldana, decided that each would have a
different illustrator.
(
For example, Our Little Books uses one of our design editors to prepare our little books for all the different forms for e-book publishing of the printed little book
For example, Our Little
Books uses one of our design editors to prepare our little books for all the different forms for e-book publishing of the printed little bo
Books uses one of our design
editors to prepare our little
books for all the different forms for e-book publishing of the printed little bo
books for all the different forms for e-book publishing of the printed little book
for all the
different forms
for e-book publishing of the printed little book
for e-book publishing of the printed little
booksbooks.)
You'll also want to consider the subject matter and genre of your
book, because again, certain
editors will have more experience or more of a feel
for different types of genres and subject matter.
This includes finding and submitting to the right agent, editing, how the agent determines the best houses to submit work to, what the
editors look
for when they receive a submission, how the process of contracting
for a
book works, basic information on royalties, who has the responsibility
for different parts of the process, time frames, the non-writing parts authors will deal with, marketing, and many other aspects of being traditionally published.
But it is still your
book, and if you disagree with your
editor you're free to say so, and to make a case either
for keeping things as they are or
for making a
different change.
I use two
different kinds of
editors for my son's
books, one
for plot and storylines, the other
for grammar.
«We hope to capture a set of readers who perhaps don't read on paper, as well as a new generation who will grow up reading and writing on computer screens in school and will have
different reading habits,» said Maru de Montserrat, agent at International
Editors Co. and president of ADAL, «It's important to meet that demand, rather than waiting
for readers to take matters into their own hands and create a black market of scanned
books.»
Then I spent 25 years as a
book acquisitions
editor for 3
different publishing houses — attempting to gain more leverage.
There is some great info here, including a list of
different types of editing and how to find the right
editor for your
book.
This is because in the past some authors spoiled it
for everyone by sending
different parts of their
book to
different editors for free samples.
Three
different editors worked on the
book, two
for development and one to proof the manuscript.
In a splendid irony, in my day job as an
editor and publishing consultant, I help small publishers and indie authors get their
books out into the world and achieve their dreams, cheering them on, helping them overcome obstacles, feeling excited
for them when the successes come etc etc... and yet my own personal manuscripts suffer a
different fate.
For myself, I work with various people at
different levels (critique group, beta readers, proofreader,
book cover artist, and
editor) before I dare to make the manuscript public as an ebook and paperback.
There are
different kinds of
editors, each of whom does a
different job, and you might need two or more of them
for your
book.
Kristen Eckstein covers tips
for self - editing, common mistakes, and the
different types of
editors you can hire to edit your
book.
As I find myself stressing over finding an artist
for my next
book, and still don't have money to cover an
editor, I ask myself, why pay a bunch of
different people whose quality I can not truly be sure of, when I can hire a company with the backing of Penguin, and produce a better quality
book.
Whether they are copy
editors, news
editors for television and radios, acquisitions
editors in a
book publishing company, a feature
editor at a newspaper or magazine company, or they work in an academic publishing dealing with conference papers and contributions to journals; their resume formats are bound to be
different.