Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELSJul 15, 2025
There’s a new #book coming out in August by #editor Laura Portwood-Stacer that #DevelopmentalEditors and #academics will like: Make Your #Manuscript Work: A Guide to #DevelopmentalEditing for #Scholarly Writers. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691257464/make-your-manuscript-work
Make Your Manuscript Work

From the bestselling author of The Book Proposal Book, a practical, step-by-step approach to mastering the four pillars of scholarly writing for authors, editors, and publishing professionals

Ideas on FireSep 26, 2023

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Writing a Great Editorial Letter or Report

Rudy Leon, editorDec 14, 2022

#indexing books before the #copyedit really drives home the degree to which #acquisition #editors (at least at this #press) do not do any mansucript development.

How do we normalize the hiring of #developmentaleditors as SOP in the book writing process, given this absence (at least at those presses where this is a structural absence)?