They tell you not to spend the
money on an editor for your manuscript before shopping it with agents and editors.
If you are lucky, you manage to make it through all that and your book
lands on an editor's desk for consideration.
I know that,
on the editor side, they were trying to pay attention to all the kind of competing products that were out there.
It may even be a little cheaper to spend a little
now on an editor rather than later.
Reading a novel requires a larger investment of
time on the editor's part, so the query letter must be targeted very carefully.
Yes, I did see a lot of big, lush spring
florals on my editor's visit, but I was even more excited by the oversized prints for holiday.
The impact of the indie
revolution on editors is not necessarily that editors can go away but that indie authors can hire the right ones to work with.
She may or may not know the editor's work very well, aside from what it might
say on the editor's website.
My call came when I wasn't home, and my husband nearly hung up
on the editor because he wasn't sure «The Call» was real.
I would encourage writers to contact other authors in their genre for
tips on editors and to cultivate good beta readers.
In our fast - paced world, writers often have only less than a minute in which to make a good
impression on editors, producers and publishers.
Often, I
relied on my editor, also a talented teacher, to inform me of when I was being unfair, overly harsh, or too kind.
The editorial process can take a few weeks or a few months,
depending on the editor's schedule and the length and complexity of your manuscript.
Do you believe spending
money on an editor is a waste if you're a newbie seeking traditional publishing?
But no matter what the size of the publishing house, by the time a manuscript
lands on an editor's desk, it needs to be pretty close to print - ready.
Meaning, I refuse to spend thousands
on an editor who used to work at Random House but on the other hand, I wouldn't pay for one of those penny - a-page editors that operate out of the Philippines either.
A few days later, down on a deep inside page, the Times has a story reporting thatthe Conference of Catholic Bishops brought
pressure on the editors of Nature, who then apologized for their error.
In recent
discussions on editor errors, my colleagues have cited errors in Agatha Christie, P.D. James, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Tom Wolfe, James Patterson, Jeff Lindsay, and of course, Dan Brown (google «Da Vinci Code errors» to see the long lists).
«We just showed it to one of the guys who worked
on the editor with the last game, Trials HD, and his eyes just bugged out,» said Ilvessuo.
There was no real incentive for me to rewrite everything because I had other things I wanted to do and I didn't want to
work on the editor alone again so the lock stayed.»
That was the message sent by UFT President Michael Mulgrew and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten on Oct. 30 as they delivered petitions with more than 100,000 signatures calling
on the editors of Time magazine to apologize for a recent cover.
Unlike traditional publications that decide what users get to read based
on editor recommendations — Tang's company aggregates, labels and matches content to user preferences.
Thematically tackling in sweeping brushstrokes the connect between childhood trauma and adult dysfunction, Muccino ultimately relies very
heavily on editor Alex Rodriguez (Y Tu Mamá También, 2001; Children of Men, 2006), whose skill is tested to the limit in his handling of first time scribe Brad Desch's back - and - forth narrative timeline.
Design The Switch 10 is Acer's latest attempt at the 2 - in - 1 device, a tablet with a detachable keyboard dock, giving you a laptop - style experience, similar to that
seen on the Editors» Choice Asus Transformer Book T100TA (64 GB).
Editor Shawn Coyne, who has 25 years of experience, expresses the problem succinctly and memorably: «A lot of people just want to dump their
goo on an editor and have the editor form that into something for them.»
Then there are those on the opposite side of the spectrum, those indie authors who spend
thousands on editors and still windup with errors in their book.
And there are so many other pressures
on editors from the business side of publishing houses — they may love a book, yet not be allowed to buy it because their house can't afford to take a chance.
For me, the commitment and challenge in
taking on the editor role is primarily a learning one, through which such relevant skills as I have can be applied to and be exchanged for the enormous degree of knowledge to be gained from reading about topics that apply to legal practice and general counsel, that I have largely ignored until now.