also, prissy, it is the impaired people who wrote, translated and
edited the book you so joyfully insert deep in your rectum
And writers can only
edit their books themselves so many times before they lose all objectivity.
You've
edited your book so many times you can recite it by heart.
An example is a client who had a wonderful storyline but needed to hire an editor to professionally
edit his book so the manuscript would be as ready as possible to show an agent.
Fabozzi gets practical experts to write for him and
he edits the book so that it reads well.
Not exact matches
He is determined to work it out
so he can get the
book written and
edited by the end of March.
A
book, written by greedy patriarchal elite, re-written,
edited to fit the cultural norms of the day says
so...
so why not buy it hook, line, and sinker?
I'm
so glad that, as a Muslim, I don't have to actually defend the
so - called «Bible» which is actually a collection of
books edited over and over again by many people.
The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new
book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the
so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's
book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new
book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942),
edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.
This is my first
book,
so I'm not sure what to expect next — what the
editing process will be like, when the
book will be released, how long it will take to lose the ten pounds I gained while writing it, etc. — but I will keep you posted.
So in a post last week, I somewhat casually mentioned the fact the word «vagina» was being
edited out of a draft of my new
book, «A Year of Biblical Womanhood,» to be released by Thomas Nelson in October.
I want to add to this list my own expressions of thanks to those who made what might have been a difficult undertaking a rewarding one instead: Ruth Hopewell, who gave me the privilege of
editing the
book and consistently aided me in doing
so; the Directors of Auburn Seminary, who granted a generous leave for my work on the project in Atlanta; Jim Waits and Elizabeth Smith, who anticipated everything I would need for the work to be done comfortably and efficiently; Lurline and James Fowler, who provided housing and friendship; Channing Jeschke, Candler's librarian, who made available and helped to arrange Hopewell's
books and papers; Brooks Holifield, who worked with me on the last and knottiest problems in the text; and David Kelsey, on whose encouragement and sagacity I relied heavily when my assignment seemed most formidable.
When I was writing More Than Serving Tea I confided in a few friends who helped my husband juggle the preschool and elementary school schedules
so that I could get away to write,
edit, and promote the
book.
Originally, I wrote this guide for myself,
so that I would remember all the steps involved to taking my
book manuscripts from a Word documents, all the way through
editing, typesetting, and design, to the ultimate goal of putting the
books on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple iBooks.
So it is that people like Heaven Sent BELIEVE the «word of god» is a
book edited in the 17th century from 16th century translations of 8,000 contradictory copies of 4th century scrolls that claim to be copies of LOST letters from the 1st century?
So I could
edit my
book (which is in the works right now) for a second edition, but this time specifically rig it for Kindle with an full assortment of links?
There are millions and millions of
books available, but
so many believe in this one
book, a
book that, despite being
edited many, many times by human men, is called the «word of god».
Well, these are the words or events we had to
edit out
so that certain Christian bookstores would stock our
books.»
This «
book of extraordinary audacity,» the dust jacket claims, was not compiled by Grayling
so much as «made» using the very «techniques of
editing, redaction, and adaptation that produced the holy
books of the Judeo - Christian and Islamic religions.»
I've been following you for a while now and I'm
so glad that you've
edited a new
book.
I imagine the
book has kept you quite busy for a good long while, and given the release date, I suppose it'll soon be going to press,
so you may be in a rush for the final
edits.
In fact, we fell for chiles
so hard that between us we've authored thirty
books on them and fiery foods, plus produced trade shows and video documentaries, and
edited two magazines on the subject of pungent peppers.
And as a data collector by nature and training, I especially like the
book's concluding feedback chart, which orders all the recipes in the
book so you can keep track of recipes tried, any
edits to presentation, and whether your baby / toddler did or did not like it (yay for rating scales!).
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.
He
edited a
book in 2003 or
so but I don't think anyone bought it in any real numbers.
The experience, including the opportunity to live and work in France, is
so much more than just
book editing.
Ricardipus:
So everyone - how much were you
edited for the
book?
[
Edited to add, for the last time: I have THOUGHTS on the developments in Career of Evil but I will keep them to myself
so I don't spoil the
book for anyone who hasn't read it.
At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and
edited such
books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and
so much more.
So the only thing that is actually new in this
book is that there are some new artwork included and
edited text.
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.
I am obsessed with Bret Easton Ellis and I enjoyed The Informers, I just wish it had not been
so overly
edited (apparently over 40 minutes of footage was cut that was in BEE's original script and I have a feeling a lot of it would have helped the film be more dynamic as the
book was.)
Using
Book Creator allowed for easy
edits to the digital work the kids had completed
so far.
So I finished the last few touches on my first
edit of AMERICAN REBIRTH,
Book 3 of the American Rebirth Series, and gave it to my beta readers.
For a guy who has
edited Toni Morrison, Nora Ephron, and others, he comes as across as a seriously uninformed dick who delights in «mansplaining» everything that is wrong with a wildly successful genre (that earns enough money to pretty much keep the rest of the industry flourishing and off life support because there are only
so many painfully precious lit fic
books one can read before wanting to go to a poetry reading and sarcastically catcall the people at the mic) that is dominated by women who for the most part seem to know what they are doing and drive 90 % of the innovation in
book marketing and sub-genres.
As an editor, I feel I've developed that relationship with several authors for whom I've
edited multiple
books each, where I've pointed out the same pitfalls
so many times, now I just write in the margin, «you're doing it again, that thing we've discussed.»
Rebecca, not counting the time it took to
edit your
book, how much time
so you estimate it took to get your
book ready for publishing at CreateSpace?
«I give my boss (who owns a small
editing company) a weekly update of all the hot topics in
book publishing news, and I get
so tired of reading about people recommending self - publishing as essentially another get - rich - quick scheme.
Once you have spent
so long writing your
book, you owe it to yourself to allow a professional editor time to proofread and
edit your
book for you.
So while I'd rather be working on the final
edits / production of the sequel (and I'm itching to make a start on the third
book in the sequence), I'm also in parallel making plans for every self - promotional event I can think of.
This gets tricky, because technically, the publisher owns the final,
edited version of your
book,
so to self - publish in print, for example, you may need to pay them back the full or partial
editing fees for your own personal use.
If a full - length novel
edit is out of reach for you, don't tell yourself that you'll publish the
book anyway, wait until you've racked up $ 1,000 or
so in royalties, then pay for an
edit.
So they won't brand these
books, they won't
edit them, they won't market or distribute them, but they sure as hell will point authors there and take their money.
Corina Koch MacLeod explains the 4 levels of
editing,
so you know which your
book -LSB-...]
As a writer, I want the publishing companies to still make a profit
so we still have a chance to be authors, as opposed to anybody posting a
book with no
editing or proofreading onto an e-reader.
All of my lengthy
books are still in need of
so - called professional
editing.
In the case of what is known as
so - called «developmental
editing» the whole structure of the
book has to be considered.
Edit: I mentioned in my review that the author paid $ 1,000,000 for this abandoned villa because she said in the
book that she wrote «milione» at the closing
so many times.
So it's more important than ever that a
book's core elements (ie,
editing, formatting and cover design) are good enough to compete.
If readers want to find quality
books, they can sign up to Bookbub or Booktastik, where discounted
books are offered that have been vetted for
editing,
so it's a kind of gatekeeper service.