Melanie Saxton

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As a storytelling editor, it’s fun to share holidays that uplift the literary community. A storytelling editor works with the author to help bring a story to life (written and oral). Indeed, sharing stories is much like sharing experiences, culture, beliefs, legends, lore, and whatever elements make a good story.

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Melanie Saxton

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As a historical fiction book editor, I was honored to work on Book Two of The Last Caddy Series. As a historical fiction golf editor, I enjoy collaborating with authors on novels in country club settings or golf tours. ” Adventures of a Historical Fiction Golf Editor I live, eat, and breathe these poignant tales of bygone eras!

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Melanie Saxton

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As a historical fiction book editor, I was honored to work on Book Two of The Last Caddy Series. As a historical fiction golf editor, I enjoy collaborating with authors on novels in country club settings or golf tours. ” Adventures of a Historical Fiction Golf Editor I live, eat, and breathe these poignant tales of bygone eras!

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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 have a great story, but maybe for the wrong time. Photo by Miguel Á.

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Elna Cain

MARCH 17, 2024

Find Local Newspapers Top Soft Skill : Patience (to get stories) Top Writing Skill : Journalistic writing Do you see a pattern here? Lately, there have been stories globally about media companies laying off journalists , and this may trickle down to your town or city. They wanted me to drive around town for stories.

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Melanie Saxton

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

. “This book describes a powerful new approach to advertising and marketing for the digital age that involves using stories to design emotional and transactional experiences for customers, both online and offline. Each connection inspires engagement with another, so the brand becomes part of the customer’s story.

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Melanie Saxton

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Because ghostwriting is an anonymous service bound by confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, I do not mention the manuscripts I’m privileged to write on behalf of authors (although some do give me an editor’s credit). Imagine the honor of being entrusted with the telling of someone’s life story.

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Make a Living Writing

MARCH 18, 2024

Contact: Victoria Starr Marshall (Publisher/Editor) Rate: Between $25 and $50 (USD) in print and web. Pitch Tips: Send your idea for a piece, explain your approach and why you’re the one to tell the story, and mention which section of the magazine your piece is intended. You can find detailed submission guidelines here.

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The Write Life

JANUARY 9, 2024

Pets can be a wonderful inspiration, and there are many outlets looking for your stories. If you are working on a personal story, write from the heart. 18 publications that want your pet stories Why not combine your love of animals with your talent in writing? All stories should be true and written in first person.

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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. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults — “… a love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever dream about what home means when you feel you don’t fit in.”

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Kayleigh Moore

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Lessons include: How to Pitch Your Story Idea to Publications & Writers: How to craft a compelling pitch that builds press coverage, clicks, and buzz for your brand and/or clients. ($99) 99) New Template Bundles for Freelance Writers & Editors Buy them once; use them forever. . ($99)

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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 ). Your story is and should be about the main real-time action of the story, not what led up to it. Relying too heavily on flashbacks to tell your story risks confusing readers or diluting the focus of the overall story.

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Make a Living Writing

JANUARY 13, 2024

Bustle Bustle is a popular site always looking for stories in a range of niches, including entertainment, lifestyle, and style. There are multiple editors to pitch to depending on the topic. Email editor@sportfishingmag.com with your pitch. Email your query/pitch to founder and editor Lisa Stein.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2023

Make sure you launch the best version of your story possible (which is where the editing comes in). Whether you are tackling space monsters, futuristic technology, dystopian worlds, time travel, philosophical ponderings, and other faraway plots that seem prescient today — your story adds to the big, beautiful world of science fiction.

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

I recently learned how Chris Schuhmacher , a full-stack software engineer at Checkr , used his company’s hack week to solve a customer problem and tinker with the brand-new Grammarly Text Editor SDK , and I knew I needed to share this story with you. . How Candidate Stories gives candidates with records a chance to share their stories.

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Enchanting Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. She wants to write better stories. Jerry Seinfeld suggests that we have to be ruthless editors—to turn ourselves into a “ball-busting son of a b h.” Yeah, sure, Holly thinks. She understands that. But how can she make it work?

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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! The Story Book Maze between Town Green Park and the Library is loads of fun, and The Woodlands Waterway and Lake Woodlands are strewn with art benches (try counting them all).

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Make a Living Writing

APRIL 15, 2024

In this article, we explore some of the best remote freelance jobs for writers and editors, along with tips on how to thrive in these roles. Remote editors polish written content by improving clarity, coherence, and overall quality. Many editors are open to working with remote writers and freelancers. Why work remote?

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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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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. Contact: Editor | Jessica Rogen or editors@boulevardmagazine.org. . | Fiction: $50 up to 5, 000 words. #5

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Melanie Saxton

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Is it to share your life story, pass on wisdom, or document family history? Remember, writing a legacy book is a personal journey, so enjoy the process, get the editing help you need, and let your unique story shine through. Define your Purpose Together, we can clarify why you want to write a legacy book.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s post is by regular contributor Susan DeFreitas ( @manzanitafire ), an award-winning author, editor, and book coach. Needless to say, books that don’t sell are not the type of books agents and editors are interested in. After all, there are many different places in the overall timeline of your novel that your story could begin.

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Melanie Saxton

MARCH 9, 2023

Outsourcing your memoir to a ghostwriter ensures your story lives on and passes down lessons, ponderings, and historical moments. Outsourcing Your Memoir to a Professional Wordsmith I ghostwrite legacy books, autobiographies, and memoirs for author clients who need help in conceptualizing, organizing, and penning their stories.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Photo by Pixabay Today’s post is excerpted from How to Enjoy Being Edited: A Practical Guide for Nonfiction Authors by nonfiction writing coach and editor Hannah de Keijzer. I hear some version of this question often—most editors do—and I understand it completely. It’s also not what’s happening in the author-editor relationship.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 17, 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. It’s a tad long, and I’ve been trying to pare it down from its three million words to its most important story lines.

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Melanie Saxton

MARCH 29, 2023

I wondered about their decades spent as artisans and the stories they could tell — if they wrote a book. Imagine the stories these musicians, artists, and festivalgoers could tell! As an artisan book editor, I help bring books about the arts come to life.

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Elna Cain

APRIL 15, 2024

I’ve been hearing a lot of stories about ultra-long job interview process steps, multiple people involved, and at the end of all the hoops candidates go through, they are told they didn’t get the job. Connect with as many content leads, managers, and editors as possible and engage with their content. I find this crazy.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Image by Goran Horvat from Pixabay 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. Ditch the index cards and unleash your storytelling with Plottr – the #1 rated book outlining and story management software for writers.

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Make a Living Writing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

If your mind jumps to the old-school newspaper section with editorials, opinion pieces, and letters to the editor, you’re probably thinking it’s a waste of time. Nadim Asrar is a deputy editor for Al Jazeera and his Twitter is @aqliyat. Pitch an op-ed idea to Financial Times editor Brooke Masters ( @brookeamasters ).

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Melanie Saxton

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Do you have a corporate tale, family adventure, genealogical story, military journey, or other legacy-centric accounts that you want to capture for posterity? Your ancestor’s immigration stories, achievements, and challenges overcome are included, but legacy book ghostwriting entails more than your ancestral past.

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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. Readers from your target audience who enjoy stories about specific topics or from specific genres. Photo by Miguel Á. It also features first-page critiques.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 24, 2024

In recent years Donald Trump’s ghostwriter Tony Schwartz related his story, and regrets, in The New Yorker , and J. They may have started as journalists, publicists, editors, novelists, and bestselling authors, but now they were united in a fellowship of scribes. But the world is shifting. Ghostwriting is clearly a growth business.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 24, 2024

Today’s post is by author, editor, and book coach Suzy Vadori. This is possible if you set up a listening pass—where you listen to your story read aloud by text-to-speech on your computer or mobile device. Some questions you can ask yourself while listening: Is the scene engaging and moving your story forward? Don’t despair.

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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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Elna Cain

MAY 8, 2023

This happened to one of my Writeto1k students, and I’ve heard similar stories all over Twitter. Example of a content outline that’s fleshed out I use Google Docs to create my outline, and send it to the editor. But the GoDaddy editor did and magically changed it. This goes for clients that give you the outline.

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