Melanie Saxton

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It’s an essential step in writing and publishing, and there are many reasons why it benefits you as an author and your manuscript as an engaging fiction or non-fiction work. Grammar and Language Refinement An editor can help improve the clarity, flow, and readability of your writing.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 16, 2024

We all want to make our writing the best it can be, and in this video, I demonstrate how you can use ProWritingAid to improve your manuscript before working with a human editor. Watch below or here on YouTube. Time stamps 00:27 — Why use an editing tool anyway?

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 14, 2023

Padriñán Ask the Editor is a column for your questions about the editing process and editors themselves. This month’s Ask the Editor is sponsored by The Writing Consultancy. Work with an expert editor to revise and submit your fiction or memoir. I hesitate to criticize your previous editors.

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Melanie Saxton

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Your prospective editor should be able to describe past projects, share a portfolio, point you to testimonials, and discuss the timeline and deliverables for your book.

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Melanie Saxton

JANUARY 10, 2023

This past January 2nd, the world celebrated National Science Fiction Day — a reminder that 2023 is a brand new year for launching sci-fi books. Don’t skimp on beta readers and a second set of eyes (an editor) to ensure your book is a marvel. Book editors are objective. Does your sci-fi novel need editing?

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Make a Living Writing

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Contact: Editor | Email: Elizabeth Moyer or Elizabeth Moyer. Contact: Editor | Email: Jessica Hein. Contact: Executive Editor | Email: Josie Byzek and Editor | Ian Ruder. Rate: Contact editor. A diverse literary magazine published three times per year and features poetry, fiction, and essays of promising writers.

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Melanie Saxton

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As a professional ghostwriter and editor , my job is to gather, interview, organize, and fact-check (as much as possible) information that belongs in your book. Authors can explore, affirm, correct, or expand upon family tales and experiences to set the record straight. Leave the Worrying to Me! That’s where I come in! Look no further!

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Melanie Saxton

MARCH 28, 2023

Be inspired by The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival and seek a professional art book editor to assist with your book-writing project! Graduating high school seniors were asked to reflect on the presence or absence of patterns in the works they submitted in 2D, 3D, Short Fiction, Short Non-Fiction, and Poetry.

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Publishing Trends

MAY 6, 2024

Knopf announced that Emily Cunningham will join as executive editor, effective June 3. Cunningham comes to Knopf from Penguin Press , where she is a senior editor. Disney Hyperion announced editor-at-large Stephanie Owens Lurie will retire from the company at the end of May. She was previously editor at Inkyard.

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Publishing Trends

APRIL 8, 2024

PEOPLE Penguin Random House , Anna Paustenbach will join Avery Publishing as executive editor on April 1st. She was previously executive editor at Harper One. Tiffany Liao has joined as executive editor for Random House Children’s. She was most recently an executive editor at Zando Young Readers.

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Melanie Saxton

DECEMBER 30, 2022

What a thrill to collaborate on these fantastic projects, which include fiction and nonfiction books, white papers, web copy, and more! I specialize in nearly every genre, with an emphasis on autobiographies, memoirs, legacy books, and historical fiction. Are You In Need of an Editor? Learn more about book editing here.

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Elna Cain

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Read & Follow the Guidelines of the Publication To ensure the editor reads through your whole email pitch, read the guidelines and publication of the website! If you want to write a pitch for an article on Atlas Obscura make sure you stay away from travelogs and fictional travel stories. This is what I do.

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Melanie Saxton

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Legacy Book Editor. I celebrate every National Day of Writing (October 20) by ghostwriting legacy books, memoirs, autobiographies, or historical fiction novels for author clients. My goal is to add as much (or as little) information to your legacy book before the memories and details are lost to time. Outsourced Legacy Books.

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Melanie Saxton

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As a true crime book editor, I really appreciate the words below, provided by author Ken Wilson. You can see his words on my testimonial here (just scroll down to the True Crime and Crime Fiction section). As a true crime book editor, it was an honor to work with Ken Wilson and edit Guilty as Sin.

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Melanie Saxton

MARCH 29, 2023

Get assistance from a tourism book editor. Count on me, a tourism book editor, with decades of experience in my portfolio! Writing a travel or tourism manuscript? Are you thinking about writing a book on tourism, travel adventures, or special destinations here and abroad? I look forward to hearing from you!

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The Creative Penn

MAY 13, 2024

In the intro, Countdown Pages on FindawayVoices by Spotify; the impact of AI narrated audiobooks on Audible [ Bloomberg ]; Ideas for short fiction anthologies and Kevin J. I also learned that a lot of them were former magazine editors. Then I was also doing nonfiction, which also is not fiction, which is where most people want to be.

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Make a Living Writing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Submission dates: September 1 to December 15; February 14 to May 31 Payment: $20 per page for prose; $40 per page for poetry (to a maximum of $300) Asimov’s Science Fiction The world’s leading science fiction magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction , seeks character-oriented stories examining the human experience.

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Melanie Saxton

JANUARY 27, 2023

. ### Are You in Search of a Ghostwriter, Collaborator, or Health Writer or Editor for Your Next Project? I specialize in editorial and literary writing and editing for magazines, nonfiction books, and fiction manuscripts.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Photo by Alice AliNari Ask the Editor is a column for your questions about the editing process and editors themselves. This month’s Ask the Editor is sponsored by Plottr. From the writer: I’ve had questions whether to present this as literary fiction with magical realism or magical realism with a literary bent.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 24, 2023

Padriñán Ask the Editor is a column for your questions about the editing process and editors themselves. This month’s Ask the Editor is sponsored by Book Pipeline. The 2023 Book Pipeline Unpublished contest awards $20,000 for unpublished manuscripts across 8 categories of fiction and nonfiction. Photo by Miguel Á.

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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. Julie Scheina: Funnily enough, it was only when I became a freelance editor that I heard the term “developmental editing.”

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Publishing Trends

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Senior editor Daniel Loedel is leaving Bloomsbury to freelance edit and write. Yaniv Soha has joined Atria Books and Simon & Schuster as executive editor. At Penguin Random House ’s imprint, Portfolio , Casey Ebro joins as executive editor, reporting to Niki Papadopoulos. At Berkeley , Lisa Bonvissuto has joined as editor.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 13, 2024

The project encompasses public libraries, authors, curators, and readers working together to connect library patrons with great self-published work, primarily in fiction. Side note, I adore funny speculative fiction. However, I still didn’t know if Oil and Dust had legs, so I sent it to Kim Kessler, a freelance developmental editor.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 26, 2024

Photo by Ian Noble on Unsplash Today’s post is by author and editor Lynn Schmeidler ( @lynnschmeidler ). My task, then, was to find a way to tell my fiction about the facts. On New Year’s Day, during my senior year of college, a gruesome double murder took place in my hometown. Even in an episode of Law and Order. It destabilized me.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 9, 2023

Ask the Editor is a column for your questions about the editing process and editors themselves. This month’s Ask the Editor is sponsored by Book Pipeline. A quick search for “World War II historical fiction” brings up over a thousand titles on the Barnes & Noble website, and many more on Amazon. Want to be considered?

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Melanie Saxton

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Again, you are credited as the author, and I am not mentioned unless the author credits me as editor. Perhaps you have a historical fiction novel in mind. I wordsmith your book based on the assets you provide (documents, journals, diaries, records, and your memories) and prepare it for publication. What is Ghostwriting? Types of Books.

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Elna Cain

APRIL 5, 2023

I see where they fit in my rate range and do my research to see what type of company this is and who their content lead and editor are. Read a Fiction Book This one of me is a hard one. I love reading fiction, but I’ve only been reading fiction books to my twins for the last five years or so!

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Photo by Pavel Danilyuk Ask the Editor is a column for your questions about the editing process and editors themselves. Today’s Ask the Editor is sponsored by Book Pipeline. Editors reviewing unpublished fiction and nonfiction through the Book Pipeline Workshop. It also features first-page critiques.

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MAY 10, 2023

PEOPLE Simon & Schuster announced that former executive Dawn Davis will return to the publishing house as senior v-p and publisher of 37 Ink and executive editor of the S&S trade imprint. Davis moves to S&S from Condé Nast , where since 2020 she has been editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit and Epicurious.

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Ask the Editor is a column for your questions about the editing process and editors themselves. This month’s Ask the Editor is sponsored by The S**t No One Tells You About Writing Podcast. Each week you’ll hear from expert writers and editors, followed by workshops led by Bianca, Carly or CeCe. Should I Hire an Editor?

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The con: your inner editor distracts you from drafting your piece. These not only drive your inner editor mad, but it can be plain distracting as you try to form the next sentence in your brain. I’ve done dictation long enough for fiction and nonfiction that both methods work for me. It’s just too distracting.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

JULY 7, 2023

JANUARY Danuta Gleed Literary Award The Danuta Gleed Literary Award was created as a celebration of the life of Danuta Gleed, a writer whose short fiction won several awards before her death in December 1996. Danuta Gleed’s first collection of short fiction, One of the Chosen, was posthumously published by BuschekBooks.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 7, 2023

Writing and editing Scrivener — for writing first draft fiction and non-fiction, keeping notes, organizing, and restructuring. Tutorial here for fiction and non-fiction. The Blue Garret — Kristen Tate is my (human) editor. But of course, you don't have to use my links! ProWritingAid — for self-editing.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Ask the Editor is a column for your questions about the editing process and editors themselves. This month’s Ask the Editor is sponsored by Legacy Launch Pad’s Bestselling Book Bulletin. I am a professional writer and former journalist, but I’m new to writing fiction. Photo by ROMAN ODINTSOV. Want to be considered?

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 15, 2023

Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash Today’s post is by regular contributor Susan DeFreitas ( @manzanitafire ), an award-winning author, editor, and book coach. Bestseller lists may be dominated by relatively superficial fiction written by authors with ten plus novels under their belts.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 5, 2023

Today’s post is by regular contributor Susan DeFreitas ( @manzanitafire ), an award-winning author, editor, and book coach. There are two fundamental modes in fictional storytelling: summary and scene. But to my mind, scene is where the real magic happens in fiction.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 23, 2023

Ask the Editor is a column for your questions about the editing process and editors themselves. This month’s Ask the Editor is sponsored by Book Pipeline. Awarding $20,000 to authors across 8 categories of fiction and nonfiction. Awarding $20,000 to authors across 8 categories of fiction and nonfiction.

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