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Storyscaping in the Realm of Book Editing

Melanie Saxton

At the end of the day, all authors are storytellers. Available on Amazon I’ve always loved storytelling, from the time I repeated fairy tales to my siblings to the time I began writing magazine editorials and editing books. But what I didn’t expect was exposure to a concept called “storyscaping.”

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People Round Up, Early April, 2024

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PEOPLE Penguin Random House , Anna Paustenbach will join Avery Publishing as executive editor on April 1st. At Random House , Sara Birmingham will join May 6 as executive editor, reporting to VP editor in chief Ben Greenburg and working closely with editorial director Caitlin McKenna , to expand the fiction list.

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People Round-Up, Early October 2023

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Will Schwitzer has been named CEO at scholarly publishing platform, Silverchair. Greyson Corley , has joined as trade marketing assistant, previously they interred at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. Keren Baltzer has been named associate publisher at Zondervan Books. He will start November 13th.

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Should I Hire an Editor to Help Cut My Manuscript?

Jane Friedman

Sign up to receive a bulletin every Thursday morning that includes one answer to a publishing question, one publishing tip, one publishing resource and one bit of publishing advice. While the allure of a trained eye on your manuscript can be difficult to resist, high-quality editorial feedback is expensive.

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How to Successfully Pitch Op-Eds and Timely Cultural Pieces

Jane Friedman

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Today’s post is excerpted from Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published by Estelle Erasmus. Almost all news outlets have op-ed sections, where writers not affiliated with the publication’s editorial board can contribute. (Fun

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Before You Hire a Developmental Editor: What You Need to Know

Jane Friedman

Today’s guest post is a Q&A by Sangeeta Mehta ( @sangeeta_editor ), a former acquiring editor of children’s books at Little, Brown and Simon & Schuster, who runs her own editorial services company. Where do editorial letters—better known in our field as “edit letters”—fit in?

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10 Examples of How Content Creators and Teams Are Using AI

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CNET shares transparent insights into how AI is used in its content CNET uses AI to write its articles but emphasizes that they don’t publish AI-generated content without having it reviewed and edited by humans before posting – even more since an incident with its content.