![]() ![]() ![]() While working directly with authors, writes Nancy S. To Michael Pietsch, CEO of Hachette Book Group, the “intimate, careful, nourishing work of editing feels like a privilege that editors earn” (121) by providing the other services needed to bring a book to market.Įven when it comes to working with authors on their texts, What Editors Do presents editing as complex, personal, and varied. What Editors Do offers many lessons in manuscript editing, but gives as much attention to other tasks: acquisitions, budgeting, planning marketing tracking and predicting reading and publishing trends and networking-with agents, authors, booksellers, and social media content providers, among others. The book’s twenty-six chapters offer a wide and representative overview of the many roles and tasks editors perform in bringing books from manuscript to readership.Įarly on, Ginna tell us that “what the word editing connotes to most people-correcting and improving an author’s text-is only a part of what book editors do” (2). Ginna, whose three decades of editorial experience include major positions at trade and academic presses, has assembled an impressively credentialed roster of editors, publishers, agents, and writers. What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing, edited by Peter Ginna and published by U of Chicago Press (2017), takes on an ambitious task: it provides a comprehensive overview of the state of book editing today. Editors can glean valuable insight from the book’s many accomplished contributors, and authors can get an overview of what an editor does to get a book from draft to published. After all, there are multiple types of editing and multiple types of editors! In this week's blog, we revisit former TEC editor Jonathan's review of What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing, a book that can be helpful for editors and writers alike. When you’re an author looking for an editor, it can be difficult to gauge what, exactly, an editor does. ![]()
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