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People Round-Up, Mid-July 2023

Publishing Trends

Artie Bennett , executive copy editor, will retire on November 10. At Penguin Children’s , Gerard Mancini , vice president, executive director managing editorial & production editorial will retire in December. Mancini joined the Viking Children’s editorial team in the fall of 1985.

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When to Delete “That”

The Subversive Copy Editor

Picture an aged, rasping storyteller surrounded by curious listeners. The storyteller begins. What if the character is a beat cop instead of a mysterious storyteller? In the sentences above, I used it four times, quoted it twice (not counting the storyteller example or when I referred to it as a word), and chose to omit it once.

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Jack Hart Talks about Wordcraft

The Subversive Copy Editor

In part, I tackled the project to prove what I’d always suspected: that the rules of storytelling are universal, that they apply across genres, including both nonfiction  and  fiction. JH:  In fiction the rules of storytelling become even stricter. That indeed proved to be the case. CS:  Good point.

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Crafting Your Novel’s Key Moments With John Matthew Fox

The Creative Penn

In the intro, writing and publishing across multiple genres [Ask ALLi ]; Pilgrimage and solo walking [Women Who Walk ]; My live webinars on using AI tools as an author ; Cowriting with ChatGPT: AI-Powered Storytelling by J. I'm talking about people writing a book in a week with the assistance of AI.

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