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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION. The Three Phases of Editing
PART I. ACQUISITION: FINDING THE BOOK
1 WHERE IT ALL BEGINS by Peter Ginna
2 THE ALCHEMY OF ACQUISITIONS: Twelve Rules for Trade Editors by Jonathan Karp
3 THINKING LIKE A SCHOLARLY EDITOR: The How and Why of Academic Publishing by Gregory M. Britton
4 THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINES: Acquiring College Textbooks by Peter Coveney
PART II. THE EDITING PROCESS: FROM PROPOSAL TO BOOK
5 THE BOOK’S JOURNEY by Nancy S. Miller
6 WHAT LOVE’S GOT TO DO WITH IT: The Author–Editor Relationship by Betsy Lerner
7 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DESK: What I Learned about Editing When I Became a Literary Agent by Susan Rabiner
8 OPEN-HEART SURGERY, OR JUST A NIP AND TUCK? Developmental Editing by Scott Norton
9 THIS NEEDS JUST A LITTLE WORK: On Line Editing by George Witte
10 TOWARD ACCURACY, CLARITY, AND CONSISTENCY: What Copyeditors Do by Carol Fisher Saller
PART III. PUBLICATION: BRINGING THE BOOK TO THE READER
11 THE FLIP SIDE OF THE PIZZA: The Editor as Manager by Michael Pietsch
12 START SPREADING THE NEWS: The Editor as Evangelist by Calvert D. Morgan Jr.
13 THE HALF-OPEN DOOR: Independent Publishing and Community by Jeff Shotts
PART IV. FROM MYSTERY TO MEMOIR: CATEGORIES AND CASE STUDIES
14 LISTENING TO THE MUSIC: Editing Literary Fiction by Erika Goldman
15 DUKES, DEATHS, AND DRAGONS: Editing Genre Fiction by Diana Gill
16 MARGINALIA: On Editing General Nonfiction by Matt Weiland
17 ONCE UPON A TIME LASTS FOREVER: Editing Books for Children by Nancy Siscoe
18 LIVES THAT MATTER: Editing Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir by Wendy Wolf
19 OF MONOGRAPHS AND MAGNUM OPUSES: Editing Works of Scholarship by Susan Ferber
20 RELIABLE SOURCES: Reference Editing and Publishing by Anne Savarese
21 THE PINK SHOULD BE A SURPRISE: Creating Illustrated Books by Deb Aaronson
PART V. PURSUING A PUBLISHING CAREER: VARIETIES OF EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
22 WIDENING THE GATES: Why Publishing Needs Diversity by Chris Jackson
23 THE APPRENTICE: On Being an Editorial Assistant by Katie Henderson Adams
24 THIS PENCIL FOR HIRE: Making a Career as a Freelance Editor by Katharine O’Moore-Klopf
25 THE SELF-PUBLISHER AS SELF-EDITOR by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry
26 A NEW AGE OF DISCOVERY: The Editor’s Role in a Changing Publishing Industry by Jane Friedman
CONCLUSION. AS TIME GOES BY: The Past and Future of Editing
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Further Resources
About the Editor
Index
Footnotes
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