What Editors Do: The Art, Craft & Business of Book Editing
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    [synopsis] => Editing is an invisible art in which 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 have while shepherding a project from concept to publication.

“What Editors Do” 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 approach the work of editing. Serving as a compendium of professional advice and a portrait of what goes on behind the scenes, this book 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 role that extends far beyond marking up the author's text.

This collection treats editing as both art and craft, and also as a career. It explores how editors balance passion against the economic realities of publishing-and shows why, in the face of a rapidly changing publishing landscape, editors are more important than ever.
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    [series] => Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    [subtitle] => The Art, Craft & Business of Book Editing
    [publisher] => The University of Chicago Press
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