Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know about What Editors Do
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An indispensable guide for editors, would-be editors, and especially writers who want to understand the publishing process. In this classic handbook, top professionals write about the special demands and skills necessary for particular areas of expertise--mass market, romance, special markets, and more.
Preface: Reflections on a Lifetime of EditingWhat Is an Editor?3The Evolution of the American Editor10An Open Letter to a Would-be Editor22Are Editors Necessary? (revised for this edition) and On the Decline of Western Literature29Lunch with a Favorite Agent40Breaking Faith: A Publishing Parable42Mistah Perkins - He Dead: Publishing Today (with a postscript for this edition)56Doing Good - And Doing It Right: The Ethical and Moral Dimensions of Editing73How Books Are Chosen: What Goes into Making an Editorial Decision83What Editors Look for in a Query Letter, Proposal, and Manuscript93The Editor and the Author at the Writers' Conference: Why They Go, What They Do101The Editor as Negotiator109Editing for the Christian Marketplace117Editing Books for the Jewish Market: A Commitment to Community125Developmental Editing: A Creative Collaboration134The Copy Editor and the Author143Line Editing: Drawing Out the Best Book Possible153Line Editing: The Art of the Reasonable Suggestion169The Role of the Editorial Assistant173Working with a Free-Lance Editor or Book Doctor179Editing True Crime188Editing Crime Fiction194The Pleasures and Perils of Editing Mass-Market Paperbacks205Editing Trade Paperbacks in Middle Age - Theirs and Mine218Editing Nonfiction: The Question of "Political Correctness"229Editing Fiction: The Question of "Political Correctness"243Editing Scholars in Three Modes for Three Audiences252Editing for a Small Press: Publishing the Way It Used to Be260Editing Fiction as an Act of Love267On Editing Nonfiction: Multiple Majors in a University of Subjects280Editing the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Novel: The Importance of Calling Everyone Fred290Editing Children's Books304Editing Reference Books315The Editor of Lives327Editing Popular Psychology and Self-Help Books338Editing the Romance Novel347Editing Male-Oriented Escapist Fiction356An Annotated Bibliography of Books on Editing and Publishing366
