Atria editor Sean deLone on why his job is like spinning plates, (a pretty good metaphor for #WhatEditorsDo) and the state of the #publishing business generally
#editing #writing
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Wish me luck! I'm about to renumber my author's reference list. http://bit.ly/2LMeHDi #WhatEditorsDo #magic
I'm pleased to see this review of @DoctorSyntax's #WhatEditorsDo: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing in @chronicle. I wrote the book's chapter on #freelance #editors. http://bit.ly/2JBwOdK
Yay! See that book #WhatEditorsDo? I wrote the chapter on #freelance #editors.
Today I #amediting but will take a break for youngest son’s IEP review meeting by phone. Meeting family obligations is one of many reasons to be #selfemployed. #WhatEditorsDo
Thinking of going full-time #freelance as an #editor? Read #WhatEditorsDo: The Art, Craft, & Business of Book Editing. http://bit.ly/2qGphS7 I wrote the chapter on freelancers.
It’s a writing day and an invoicing day. #amnotediting #businessowner #WhatEditorsDo
Morning here is for mother-in-law caretaking: routine med test, notarizing, getting med refills. #Editing to happen in afternoon & evening. #WhatEditorsDo, chapter 24. http://bit.ly/2qGphS7
23 years ago today, the guy in the middle of this photo was born. Two weeks later, he was my constant little kangaroo, sleeping on me in a carrier while I began full-time #selfemployment. #WhatEditorsDo
.@JaneFriedman Friedman, well-known veteran in publishing, talks about the editor's role in a changing publishing industry: http://bit.ly/2nGqZFV #WhatEditorsDo
Linguist @sesquiotic: Just being an avid reader & having an urge to correct documents doesn't qualify you to be an #editor. You need #training. http://bit.ly/2isJNH6
#WhatEditorsDo http://bit.ly/2qXXpND
One of the many reasons I’m a #selfemployed #editor: I can be available to take my 83-year-old mother-in-law to medical appt’s & to make sure she eats meals & takes her pills. #WhatEditorsDo
Want to know what #selfemployed #editors do, who they work with, and who their clients are? Buy #WhatEditorsDo & read my chapter. Good gift for editors & students interesting in publishing. http://bit.ly/2qGRmYw
Words editors love to hear from their authors: “Thank you for your advice!” #WhatEditorsDo
Not all #editors work with publishers or authors. Some, like Rosemary Shipton, work with art galleries. http://bit.ly/2zXOMn9 #WhatEditorsDo
Why Fiverr et al are places that #selfemployed #editors should avoid. www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/th... #WhatEditorsDo
Am doing several fee estimates today for #editing projects, some for physician-researchers in Northern Hemisphere & one for author in Southern Hemisphere. It's a small world. #WhatEditorsDo
#Selfemployed #editor = project whisperer, negotiator, scheduler, editor, biller, bookkeeper, mgr of client relations. #WhatEditorsDo
Consider #teaching in local elementary schools about your part of the #editorial world. Fire up imaginations! #WhatEditorsDo
It’s so pleasing when #editing requests float gently into my in-box. #WhatEditorsDo
.@DoctorSyntax of #WhatEditorsDo tells authors what they need to know about book publishing. http://bit.ly/2ikm4Ik
.@editorscanada gives book #WhatEditorsDo a great review! http://blog.editors.ca/?p=4556 Some of the book's contributors: http://bit.ly/2ihbhPo
.@cjaxone, contributor to #WhatEditorsDo, writes about the urgent need for diversity in publishing. http://bit.ly/2gafunl
Added #WhatEditorsDo to "Editing Tools" pg of Copyeditors' Knowledge Base. http://bit.ly/1gy2pva All #CKB pp.: http://bit.ly/1myrDgs
I like @PublishersWkly review of #WhatEditorsDo, even though it misspells my first name. [Should be Katharine.] http://bit.ly/2yVxwOC
Many thanks to #editor @DoctorSyntax & to @UChicagoPress for doing the book for #WhatEditorsDo. Am honored to be a chapter author.
Ordered #WhatEditorsDo: The Art, Craft, & Business of Book Editing yet? http://bit.ly/2qGphS7 I wrote the chapter on freelancers.
Am enjoying reading my coauthors' chapters in #WhatEditorsDo. Jonathan Karp's 12 rules for trade acquisition editors are good guidance.
Some of my esteemed coauthors for #WhatEditorsDo /3
