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What Makes a Good Editor?
When I teach my writing and publishing classes, I often get students who tell me they’ve always wanted to become a writer. I also get students who tell me they love finding errors in books and...
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Editors Don’t Need Constant Consistency
One of the hardest decisions editors make deals with consistency. To be credible, authors need to be consistent. They can’t say something is black one day and white the next and expect people to...
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Don’t Let Your Editor Get Away With Changing Your Intent
In our book publishing company, Expert Publishing, Inc., I’ve had the opportunity to work with several editors. Sometimes I’ve had to re-do their edits because they changed the author’s intent....
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Good Editors Ask These Questions
I was looking at a publisher’s website the other day. It was a publisher who advertises itself as a “self-publisher,” which is a misnomer unless the only author that publisher publishes is himself....
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The Craft of Editing
Some writers think of editing as a necessary evil they have to deal with if they want to sell their writing. Others embrace working with their editors because they’ve had good experiences with editors...
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Comma Sense
In the writing classes I teach at the college, I assign a comma exercise. I provide students fifteen sentences and instructions to add commas in the appropriate place, provide the reason for the comma,...
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Editing is a Critical Part of the Writing Process
I attended two meetings and one seminar last week and one issue surfaced in each venue–today’s writing needs more editing. When pressed for more details, each person talked about the explosion of...
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Budget Basics
When I edit books, I ask the author about his or her publishing plans. Ninety percent plan to self-publish. Self-publishing requires investing in oneself, and it also means creating a publishing plan,...
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10 Things You Need to do to Successfully Self-publish
Most authors know to stay away from vanity presses–the ones that take your money and publish your book as is. But few authors think about self-publishing being the ultimate in vanity publishing....
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A Primer on Nouns and Pronouns
One of the most common issues I find in the books I edit deals with the use of nouns and pronouns. Most of us remember that nouns name a person, place, or thing. Pronouns refer to nouns. If you’re...
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