Melanie Saxton

JANUARY 10, 2023

Does your sci-fi novel need editing? Will Your Sci-Fi Novel become a Cherished Bestseller Too? With careful attention to writing and professional editing, along with powerful marketing, your sci-fi novel has great potential to attract readers. Book editors are objective. This particular genre is one of my favorites.

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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. His book, Guilty as Sin , i s a novel of suspense, betrayal, and greed inspired by true events. I am so glad I found her to help me with my novel, Guilty as Sin. Connect with Your Go-To True Crime Book Editor Today!

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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. Work with an expert editor to revise and submit your fiction or memoir.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Write your novel! October 16-22 is a great time to write your novel. Don’t give up on your novel. No More Procrastination — Write Your Novel Now! Perhaps you have a great story idea but aren’t sure how to frame it within a novel. All of a sudden, the writing takes off, and your novel evolves.

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s post is by regular contributor Susan DeFreitas ( @manzanitafire ), an award-winning author, editor, and book coach. When I help my clients prepare the pitch materials for their novel, it’s not just the query and synopsis we focus on—it’s their opening pages. But published novels that actually do so are rare.

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Melanie Saxton

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re writing a technical manual, an autobiography, a novel, or a self-help book, how expertly you convey your message matters. Connect with a Storyscaping Editor Are you in search of a book editor and ghostwriter to help you through the process? Consider storyscaping. Look no further!

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Melanie Saxton

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As a children’s book editor, it’s always a thrill when the American Library Association rolls out its yearly honors. This middle-grade novel is about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom, available in hardcover on Amazon. Do You Need a Children’s Book Editor?

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 31, 2023

Photo by karina zhukovskaya Note from Jane: In the earliest days of my career, I served as managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine, and one of the nicest parts of my job was calling up winners of our writing contests, including the National Self-Published Book Awards. My Amazon ranking went from one million to one thousand.

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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 summary of the work being critiqued A Fine Suddenness is a WWII-era homefront novel that opens with Mary Miller learning that her husband, Dom, has been killed in London.

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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. Dear Lisa, Thank you for submitting the first several pages of your novel for a critique. It also features first-page critiques.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

If you want your book to be the best it can be, then working with a professional editor is the next step. An editor’s job is to take your manuscript and help you improve it through structural changes and story development, line edits, suggestions for new material or sentence refinement, and so much more. I am a super-fan of editors!

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 11, 2024

One of the key pitfalls of backstory, especially early in a novel, is either confusing backstory or overly coy and “mysterious” backstory. Editor Tiffany Yates Martin discusses this terrible passage of backstory (written by AI, in fact) and then shows how to improve it. Here’s what it looks like.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Making things more awkward, my novel’s editor and my agent, who both lived in the area, were there, witnesses to just how wildly unpopular my book seemed to be. Walsh , author of the historical novel Unsinkable , for an event. “We But as that dark and chilly evening arrived, I had a feeling it would be a low turnout.

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Today’s post is by regular contributor Susan DeFreitas ( @manzanitafire ), an award-winning author, editor, and book coach. As an independent editor and book coach, I’ve worked with writers at every stage of the writing process, from those first brainstorming exercises all the way through to the polished final draft.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 13, 2024

Fairleigh has published three fantasy novels, all part of the Elemental Artist series. I’m an avid reader of novels from Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, and Jasper Fforde. Before Oil and Dust , I’d started and abandoned over fifteen novels. The first released in 2021; the most recent released spring 2023.

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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. There’s a lot of excellent advice on this blog for getting over the finish line with publishing a novel (and a lot of less excellent advice on the same subject elsewhere!).

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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

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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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. Today’s Ask the Editor is sponsored by Book Pipeline.

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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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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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Publishing Trends

MARCH 19, 2024

Cassie Gitkins has joined Random House Publishing Group as production editor. At Dutton , David Howe has joined as associate editor. At Hyperion , Chelsea Cutchens has joined Hyperion Avenue as editor. At Abrams , Clarie Stetzer has joined as editor; she was formerly editor at Inkyard Press.

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Melanie Saxton

MARCH 29, 2023

As an artisan book editor, I help bring books about the arts come to life. Her mother loved the novel Wuthering Heights and the heroine Catherine, nicknamed Cathy. Imagine the stories these musicians, artists, and festivalgoers could tell! There’s a backstory behind her unusual name. Her father came up with Cathra-Anne. “It

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Make a Living Writing

JANUARY 22, 2024

Editor Do you have a keen eye for detail and a mastery of grammar and conventions? Editors work in book publishing as well as in industries such as journalism, magazines, digital media, advertising, and more. Editors work in book publishing as well as in industries such as journalism, magazines, digital media, advertising, and more.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 16, 2024

Photo by Eduardo Sánchez on Unsplash Today’s post is by editor Tiffany Yates Martin ( @FoxPrintEd ). Final thoughts The best way to find out how your flashbacks may be serving the story (or not) is with outside eyes: critique partners, beta readers, and editors can help point out where flashbacks may distract from or stall your story.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 8, 2023

Photo by Sonia Dauer on Unsplash 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. Should the rose-colored light of the novel’s first line, though lovely, be replaced with an eerie glow? Want to be considered?

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Jane Friedman

MAY 18, 2023

Photo by Valeriia Miller 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. But as in all of Christie’s books, the emphasis is on who committed the crime, while your novel looks to be more of a character-driven mystery.

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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? If you have a medical memoir in the works, a historical fiction novel about a frontline hero, or a technical paper that needs a health writer, look no further.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

How long have you been thinking about writing a novel? Why haven’t you written your novel yet? This is an excerpt from How to Write a Novel by Joanna Penn, available in ebook, audiobook, paperback, hardback and workbook editions.]. You have to want to write your novel. If you don’t write your novel, will you regret it?

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Photo by Nareeta Martin on Unsplash Today’s post is by Brevity blog editor Heidi Croot. In her guest post First Pages Critique: Getting a Handle on Pace , book coach and editor Hattie Fletcher tells a true crime writer that her story needs to slow down. Except it’s been keeping me awake. Writers need to go slow to go fast.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 14, 2024

Follow authors, bookstores, libraries, editors, publishers, literary agents, literary journals. One writing friend and I each read a novel for specific craft elements, and then get together via Zoom to discuss. NaNoWriMo , a challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel in the month of November, has been happening since 1999.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 19, 2023

Elisa Lorello (@elisalorello ) is the bestselling author of twelve novels and one memoir. They said ebooks (especially self-published ebooks) were going to kill the printed word and put traditional authors, agents, editors, and bookstores out of business. Writing outlines before I start a novel has always sapped me creatively.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They’re poets, but they suspect nobody reads poetry, so they try a novel instead. Or they’ve got an important personal story to tell, but they fear the earthquake their words could cause in the tectonic plates of their lives, so they decide to write … a fantasy sci-fi novel instead. That’s what real writers do, right? They think.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

JULY 7, 2023

Writing Contests 2023 Inkitt Novel Competition : Monthly Inkitt’s Writing Contests regularly give authors the opportunity to share their books with readers around the world and showcase their talents. Submissions may include a collection of short stories, one or more novellas, or a short novel. The editors will judge.

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BKA Content

APRIL 18, 2023

If not, you should seriously consider hiring an editor. Even businesses can benefit from using an editor to improve their SEO content. An editor can spot ways to cut out the fluff and improve the flow of the writing, which can boost the quality of content and improve search rankings.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 10, 2023

Within a few days, an editor got in touch accepting the idea, but then he hated the draft I turned in. I didn’t hear from the editor again until one random, rainy night when I was standing in line at Kroger, waiting for the clerk to drag my Lean Cuisines across the scanner, and my phone pinged with an urgent email. this morning.

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