What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing by Deb Aaronson, Peter Coveney, Calvert D. Morgan Jr., Wendy Wolf, Jonathan Karp, Susan Rabiner, David Henry Sterry, Jeff Shotts, Betsy Lerner, Michael Pietsch, Matt Weiland, Susan Ferber, Katharine O’Moore-Klopf, Chris Jackson, Anne Savarese, Scott Norton, Nancy Siscoe, Carol Fisher Saller, Nancy S. Miller, George Witte, Diana Gill, Gregory M. Britton, Katie Henderson Adams, Jane Friedman, Arielle Eckstut, Erika Goldman, Peter Ginna

320 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction reference informative slow-paced
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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 und...

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