Group items tagged editing - Publishing in the Digital Age

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, for example, use H.L. Mencken’s The American Language (4th ed revised with supplements), Garner’s Modern American Usage (as well as its two predecessor editions), Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage, The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style, Good’s Whose Grammar Book Is This Anyway?, The Gregg Reference Manual, and Burchfield’s Fowler’s Modern English Usage
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Dealing with clients on a business-to-business basis seems to make honoring my invoice terms happen with significantly greater regularity than when I was seen — and treated – as merely an individual freelancer
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If I do need additional editors, then I hire them, not the client.
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I receive inquiries for work that goes beyond copyediting and into other aspects of the editorial/production process
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being viewed as a company rather than as an individual means being treated as the client would treat every other company vendor.
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Being a company doesn’t mean that you must have employees other than yourself.
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Although children sometimes read picture books by themselves, most of the dearest picture book experiences arise from an activity shared between parent and child. The parent is an actor, performing for the child; the two are teammates as they jointly explore illustrations.
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moving a work that relies heavily on visual and spatial elements from one medium to another is extremely hard to do well.
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Publishers must commission some digital-only picture books to explore what the creative possibilities are when print is not the starting point.
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A straight e-book facsimile of a picture book pales in comparison to the print original and using one of these to compete with the various gorgeous iPad apps for children is like taking ink and paper to a video editing fight.
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But if the book is as good as critics are now saying it is, why didn’t it sell more copies before, especially since the rise of online publishing has supposedly made it easier than ever for first-time authors?
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Given how difficult it is for first-time fiction authors, especially in a crowded genre like mystery, to find both an agent and publisher, it’s not clear “The Cuckoo’s Calling” would have made it off the slush piles.
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An editor there told The Telegraph in London that the book “didn’t stand out.”
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a publishing contract is hardly a guarantee of critical or commercial success.
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Mr. Entrekin cited “Matterhorn,” by first-time novelist Karl Marlantes, which he published in 2010. The author “worked on the book for over 20 years and couldn’t find a publisher,” Mr. Entrekin said. Then, as the book was about to be published in a tiny first edition, Mr. Entrekin got a copy from a buyer at Barnes & Noble, loved it, and bought out the first printing.
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