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What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Peter Ginna; Jonathan Karp; Gregory M. Britton; Peter Coveney; Nancy S. Miller; Betsy Lerner; Susan Rabiner; Scott Norton; George Witte; Carol Fisher Saller; Michael Pietsch; Calvert D. Morgan Jr.; Jeff Shotts; Erika Goldman; Diana Gill; Matt Weiland; Nancy Siscoe; Wendy Wolf; Susan Ferber; Anne Savarese; Deb Aaronson; Chris Jackson; Katie Henderson Adams; Katharine OMoore-Klopf; Arielle Eckstut; David Henry Sterry; Jane Friedman is a reference work available to read on EtoBox.

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Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand the range of roles they inhabit while shepherding a project from concept to publication. In __What Editors Do,__ Peter Ginna gathers essays from twenty-seven leading figures in book publishing about their work. Representing both large houses and small, and encompassing trade, textbook, academic, and children’s publishing, the contributors make the case for why editing remains a vital function to writers—and readers—everywhere. Ironically for an industry built on words, there has been a scarcity of written guidance on how to actually approach the work of editing. This book will serve as a compendium of professional advice and will be a resource both for those entering the profession (or already in it) and for those outside publishing who seek an understanding of it. It sheds light on how editors acquire books, what constitutes a strong author-editor relationship, and the editor’s vital role at each stage of the publishing process—a

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Author

Peter Ginna; Jonathan Karp; Gregory M. Britton; Peter Coveney; Nancy S. Miller; Betsy Lerner; Susan Rabiner; Scott Norton; George Witte; Carol Fisher Saller; Michael Pietsch; Calvert D. Morgan Jr.; Jeff Shotts; Erika Goldman; Diana Gill; Matt Weiland; Nancy Siscoe; Wendy Wolf; Susan Ferber; Anne Savarese; Deb Aaronson; Chris Jackson; Katie Henderson Adams; Katharine OMoore-Klopf; Arielle Eckstut; David Henry Sterry; Jane Friedman

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226299839

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (200 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14