Sentences with phrase «editor at the publishing house of»

Your book needs to sell, firstly to an acquisitions editor at a publishing house of course, and then to bookshop buyers.

It is also very beneficial to send your manuscript to a named editor at the publishing house of your choice.

Not exact matches

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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.»

And, as an acquisitions editor at two publishing houses, he's read his fair share of proposals.

You may want to pay your editor to look at these as well as your manuscript (especially if they have significant experience of either being published traditionally or working in an agency or publishing house).

Brian DeFiore started the agency in 1999, after close to twenty years working in mainstream publishing houses, including stints as an Editor at St. Martin's Press, as VP Editorial Director at Dell / Delacorte, as VP and Editor - in - Chief at Hyperion, and as SVP and Publisher of Villard Books / Random House Publishpublishing houses, including stints as an Editor at St. Martin's Press, as VP Editorial Director at Dell / Delacorte, as VP and Editor - in - Chief at Hyperion, and as SVP and Publisher of Villard Books / Random House PublishingPublishing Group.

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.

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.»

In today's publishing world, more and more people are using freelance professional book editors, people unencumbered by the responsibilities of selling your book like agents and publishing house editors — whether to book chains, sales teams, or (in the case of agents) editors at publishing houses.

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.

Lastly, on June 13th Chris Hayes, the host of MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes and liberal broadcaster and journalist as well as being the editor at large at The Nation and the author of a new book called Twilight of the Elites published by Random House, will participate in an event to talk to readers via the platform.

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.

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.

Allyson Rudolph discusses some of her favorite experimental fiction, the day - to - day life of an associate editor at a publishing house, common problems she sees in fiction and nonfiction, her commitment to increased diversity in media and the arts, and more.

Our team of in - house editors and publishing professionals allows us to provide premium services at very affordable prices.

We maintain a roster of highly credible reviewers — critics who have had their work published in high profile publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune; editors at respected traditional publishing houses.

Writing is rewriting as they say, and when you don't have an editor polishing the work as they do at most publishing houses, then the quality of the writing is degraded if you don't have the discipline of making it the best it can be when you self - publish.»

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.

I was at a writer's conference in 2011 where one of the speakers, a publishing house editor, stated in no uncertain terms that self - published authors were the dregs at the bottom of the writing pool with no talent.

DEVELOPMENTAL EDIT - Comprehensive line edit of your manuscript by current or former acquiring editors at Big 5 publishing houses, along with a 7 - page memo.

In fact, I know a number of traditionally - published authors who have hired freelance editors to help get a manuscript into great shape, so that it moves more speedily through the «in - house» editing process at their publishers.

Admittedly, fewer people are being published at the moment in the same way as fewer houses or automobiles are being sold but that doesn't mean that the days of agents and publishers» editors are numbered.

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.

Editor Gerald Gross gets down to the nitty - gritty by compiling a series of essays by editors at publishing houses large and small.

Because even if an editor at a big publishing house wanted to buy a book, he or she had to convince a board of suits that buying the book made business sense.

It is at this point in the process that traditionally - published authors will have the help of an in - house editor to assist them through the revision process.

I had a solid graduate - level education, and I had the benefit of working with some wonderful editors at great New York publishing houses.

Meanwhile, if you're happy at the publishing house, sometime while writing the second book of a two - book deal, your editor and agent will start negotiating the next deal.

You're at a writers» conference, and you finally have a chance to sit in front of the literary agent you know would be perfect to represent your books and an editor from your favorite publishing house... And you're so nervous that you can barely put two words together, much less spit out the elevator pitch you -LSB-...]

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.

Moving into publishing, I worked as the in - house editor of the Picador list (fiction and nonfiction) at Pan Macmillan Australia, one of Australia's largest trade publishers.

A simplistic description of the long road is that it's the traditional route where your book has to pass muster with first an agent and then an editor at a publishing house.

However, if you want to be published by one of the bigger publishing houses then you do need an agent, as it is much harder to get an editor to look at your book manuscript without the help of a literary agent.

All of our services performed by experienced editors with decades of in - house editing and proofreading experience working at many leading publishing houses in Canada and USA.

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.

And, of course, by the twentieth century you had great developmental editors at the publishing houses.

«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.»

When an author queries an agent, it is like he is talking to dozens of different editors at different publishing houses.

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.

While I didn't use his copy editor (I used a friend of a friend who currently works at a big publishing house), he and other editors in his group can suggest people.

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).

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.

I've always been struck at how relatively un-nimble the big houses are,» says Tom Engelhardt, a consulting editor at Metropolitan books and the author of the prophetic novel «The Last Days of Publishing.»

A booklist is a list of books that an editor acquires or edits during their tenure at a publishing house.

I've edited on both sides of the desk, and I assure you there are mindlessly destructive editors at big publishing houses - and brilliant freelance editors as well.

If you find an editor that is not part of a big publishing house, the chances they are a scammer, or simply bad at their job increase exponentially — in that case being a little fearful isn't a bad thing, but then again, it would be your own fault.

Enroll in the program and Amazon.com will include your titles in monthly sales and marketing reports that reach the desks of acquisition editors at large publishing houses.

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.

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.