Sentences with phrase «editor at a publishing house for»

Even though I'd been a developmental editor at a publishing house for some years — in fact, in a lot of ways, because I'd been a developmental editor for years — I didn't want to push ahead toward publication for my manuscript, The Listeners.

Not exact matches

As a fiction editor at a publishing house, we are treated to scenes where Ana is scolded by her husband for not changing her work email address to her newly married name, and her editorial notes consist of «make the font size two points bigger.»

Before joining the L. Perkins Agency, Latoya was an editor for over thirteen years working at publishing houses such as Kensington Publishing, Hachette Book Group, and Samhain Ppublishing houses such as Kensington Publishing, Hachette Book Group, and Samhain PPublishing, Hachette Book Group, and Samhain PublishingPublishing.

This is a service I provide for authors who are self - pubbing AND those who are submitting to editors at conventional publishing houses.

Since an agent's main job is to become familiar with the interests of acquiring editors and executives at the major publishing houses, and sell them books, it makes sense for most agents to live in New York.

I got to pick his brain about which editors might be a good or a bad fit for me at different publishing houses, and again I learned a lot (thanks again, Brandon).

Kim Bangs, senior acquisitions editor for the Bethany House and Chosen divisions of Baker Publishing Group, was a workshop leader at The Christian PEN's editor convention, «Keys to Successful Freelance Editing.»

One editor at a major publishing house, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity for fear of employer sanctions, told me that agents of Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Target are frequent participants in meetings about potential books.

Your book agent will use your literary agent book proposal (business plan) to pitch editors (loan officers) at various publishing houses (banks), to try and get you a loan (advance) for your book (writing business).

Penguin Random House's #WriteNow program seeks writers who submit their work and then crawl their way through elimination rounds before ten are chosen to work closely with an editor for a year, hoping to land a publishing deal at the end of the process.

But for you — the independent author who doesn't have a book deal, let alone a dedicated editor at a publishing house — who can you turn to for help with your first draft?

If your self - published book has editors at traditional publishing houses nosing around for potential acquisitions, it may be time to hire a literary agent.

Because their script was plucked off Amazon by the professional readers for publishers / agents, into the new slush pile and passed onto the senior or junior editor at an agency or publishing house.

It's safer for an editor at a mainstream publishing house to buy a book that reads a lot like last year's bestseller, than to stick out their neck in support of an unproven concept that might not deliver.

Interestingly enough, I was at a writers conference in Australia (where I live) and an editor for a publishing house who also free lances told us that if publishing houses knocked back our books, to consider having them self - pubbed.

At a typical publishing house, the production editor is responsible for putting together the publication schedule, sticking to a budget, and coordinating the efforts of the editors, designers, and marketing professionals.

I've been a developmental and acquisitions editor at major publishing houses for many years.

When I replied that I've worked with four editors at six publishers — both Big Six houses and smaller independents — over the course of eight novels, and have never had my work mutilated or adulterated, much less transformed into a cookie, she told me that I was «very lucky,» for she knew of many traditionally published writers who'd had the opposite experience.

We asked Cheston Knapp about how he came to land his position as the managing editor at Tin House, to describe what makes a creative nonfiction piece stand out, and for advice on having work published in a literary magazine.

She began her career in publishing at Tyndale House Publishers where she worked for eight years, first as a product manager, then as an administrator, and finally as an acquisitions editor for nonfiction.

«While the majority of attention surrounding this deal has looked at the impact on the US and UK, home turf for Penguin and Random House,» writes Ed Nawotka, Editor - in - Chief at Publishing Perspectives in Emerging Markets are Key to Penguin Random House Merger, «the true merit of this deal is in creating synergies overseas.»

Chris Pavone grew up in Brooklyn, graduated from Cornell and was an editor at a number of book publishing houses in New York for fifteen years.

, and received a request for a full manuscript from an editor at a publishing house.

Until you are published and receiving meaty critiques from professional editors at publishing houses, look for critique partners to do heavy edits.

Lifted the historical justification for publishing houses existence (fronting the massive costs of print, promotion, distribution), the transition from «writers as providers of goods for publishers» to «publishing as a service for (or partnership with) authors» seems natural, at least where digital books are concerned, as the interests of writers, editors and readership can be more closely aligned in the latter model (depending on terms).

Or are you an editor who takes that material at the publishing house and mines it for the author's best intents?

For the last three years, she's been freelance editing; prior to that, she worked for a small publishing startup in New York, and, before that, she was the managing editor for English titles at an international publishing house in the Czech RepublFor the last three years, she's been freelance editing; prior to that, she worked for a small publishing startup in New York, and, before that, she was the managing editor for English titles at an international publishing house in the Czech Republfor a small publishing startup in New York, and, before that, she was the managing editor for English titles at an international publishing house in the Czech Republfor English titles at an international publishing house in the Czech Republic.

«If you're an editor at a major publishing house, you have to look globally [for new works to translate] and that can be overwhelming.»

Books that have gone through the traditional publishing process with an agent, editor, and publishing house, are rarely listed as free, but are sometimes offered at a discounted price for a limited time.

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.

Did I say, with confidence, that I'd go back to New York and become an editor at a publishing house, a life I'd predicted for myself for a long time, but that never came to be?

From 2002 — 2004, Swasktika worked as Associate Editor for SURAT newsletter, published by the Cemeti Art Foundation, which led to her curatorial debut at the Cemeti Art House, where she worked as an Artistic Manager from 2004 — 2009.

Before joining Wysing in 2016, John was an editor at Black Dog Publishing alongside which he worked as a freelance curator, developing exhibitions and projects for Arcadia Missa, Flat Time House, MOT International and Tate.

Marcia McNutt, who was editor of Science at the time the paper was published and is now president of the National Academy of Sciences, praised Bates for wanting to highlight the importance of data archiving, but said his criticisms have little to do with the main part of the paper and chastised the House for using issues of data archiving to try to discredit the 2015 study.

Douglas Pepper: Douglas Pepper has been in the publishing industry for 28 years, first as the first editor at Random House of Canada's nascent publishing program, then in New York as a Vice President and Senior Editor at Crown, a division of Random House,editor at Random House of Canada's nascent publishing program, then in New York as a Vice President and Senior Editor at Crown, a division of Random House,Editor at Crown, a division of Random House, Inc..

I trained as a journalist, then worked as an editor at a major publishing house for seven years, before leaving to have children.

«I'm currently the administrative assistant for a senior editor at Big Book Publishing House and I basically run his calendar and his office.