Sentences with phrase «editor at major publishing houses»

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

After graduating from Harvard College with a degree in English literature, I began working in the book business, both as an independent editor with private clients, and as an acquiring and developmental editor at major publishing houses in the industry.

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.

Acquisition editors at major publishing houses are hot to find the next big thing, especially that elusive debut author whose manuscript both inspires their personal devotion and appears to have the necessary commercial appeal.

«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.»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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).

New York Book Editors is a premiere affiliation of editors who have spent at least four years at New York's major publishing Editors is a premiere affiliation of editors who have spent at least four years at New York's major publishing editors who have spent at least four years at New York's major publishing houses.

All are professional writers or editors — many have published in places such as The New York Times and Washington Post or served in high - level positions at major publishing houses, such as Random House.

If you're being published by a traditional publishing house, there are many people — from editors to sales representatives to marketing managers to publicists to even book buyers at the major booksellers — who will weigh in on the consumer appeal and effectiveness of your book's title.

Well, before I sent my book out to agents, I hired a «book doctor» who was a former acquisition editor from a major New York publishing house (like most editors he worked at a few different houses).

As a Random House editor told me in an e-mail exchange concerning that ill - fated venture, «There are no minor leagues at major publishing houses.»