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  • Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know about What Editors Do
  • Written by author Gerald C. Gross
  • Published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc., January 1994
  • An indispensable guide for editors, would-be editors, and especially writers who want to understand the publishing process. In this classic handbook, top professionals write about the special demands and skills necessary for particular areas of expertise-
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Preface: Reflections on a Lifetime of Editing
What Is an Editor?3
The Evolution of the American Editor10
An Open Letter to a Would-be Editor22
Are Editors Necessary? (revised for this edition) and On the Decline of Western Literature29
Lunch with a Favorite Agent40
Breaking Faith: A Publishing Parable42
Mistah Perkins - He Dead: Publishing Today (with a postscript for this edition)56
Doing Good - And Doing It Right: The Ethical and Moral Dimensions of Editing73
How Books Are Chosen: What Goes into Making an Editorial Decision83
What Editors Look for in a Query Letter, Proposal, and Manuscript93
The Editor and the Author at the Writers' Conference: Why They Go, What They Do101
The Editor as Negotiator109
Editing for the Christian Marketplace117
Editing Books for the Jewish Market: A Commitment to Community125
Developmental Editing: A Creative Collaboration134
The Copy Editor and the Author143
Line Editing: Drawing Out the Best Book Possible153
Line Editing: The Art of the Reasonable Suggestion169
The Role of the Editorial Assistant173
Working with a Free-Lance Editor or Book Doctor179
Editing True Crime188
Editing Crime Fiction194
The Pleasures and Perils of Editing Mass-Market Paperbacks205
Editing Trade Paperbacks in Middle Age - Theirs and Mine218
Editing Nonfiction: The Question of "Political Correctness"229
Editing Fiction: The Question of "Political Correctness"243
Editing Scholars in Three Modes for Three Audiences252
Editing for a Small Press: Publishing the Way It Used to Be260
Editing Fiction as an Act of Love267
On Editing Nonfiction: Multiple Majors in a University of Subjects280
Editing the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Novel: The Importance of Calling Everyone Fred290
Editing Children's Books304
Editing Reference Books315
The Editor of Lives327
Editing Popular Psychology and Self-Help Books338
Editing the Romance Novel347
Editing Male-Oriented Escapist Fiction356
An Annotated Bibliography of Books on Editing and Publishing366


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