Sentences with phrase «editor at a major publisher»

Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas.

Were I an editor at a major publisher planning the release of what's likely to be a bestseller, I'd make darn certain no other cover used a particular image.

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Surprisingly enough, Jack's motive for hating Christian and Ana is not that Ana became a fiction editor at a publisher and her major contributions, as seen in this film, are finding an author named «Boyce Fox» (could've sworn my accountant worked at Boyce Fox) and increasing a font size by two points.

In the film, Hanks plays the Post's editor Ben Bradlee, while Streep plays the newspaper's publisher Katharine Graham, who was also the first woman to hold that title at a major national newspaper.

A New York literary agent can spend more time with editors and publishers at major New York publishing houses (the people who buy most books).

In today's Publetariat Dispatch, Publetariat founder and Editor in Chief April L. Hamilton marvels at Bookish.com, major publishers» latest plan to compete with booksellers directly.

How exactly do you become an editor and what what is like being one at a major publisher?

Many of the same professionals who work for major publishers also freelance for self - publishers, and I know of more than one bestselling author who's moved to self - publishing and found professional editors and cover designers and formatters who are better than the ones they worked with at their publishers.

Independent Editors Group (IEG) is a small group of top freelance editors, all with at least 20 years experience working for the major book publEditors Group (IEG) is a small group of top freelance editors, all with at least 20 years experience working for the major book publeditors, all with at least 20 years experience working for the major book publishers.

You write in a vacuum or for a professor who frowns on genre; you workshop with other writers; you craft a query letter; you appeal to the tastes of an intern at a literary agency; you claw your way out of the slush pile; you hope to win over an editor at a major publishing house; your book comes out a year later and sits spine - out on a bookshelf for six months; it gets returned to the publisher and goes out of print; you start over.

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