nonfiction Archives - The Editors' Weekly

Illustration of hands over an open lined notebook, correcting text errors with a red pen.

Filed under:

Rosemary Shipton

Working With Authors

November 6, 2018 by Rosemary Shipton | 8 Comments on Working With Authors

Editors make decisions all the time as they edit, but the most important judgment call of all is how to work best with each individual author. No one-size-fits-all solution will do. Most commonly, editors make their corrections with track changes, write questions and comments for the author in the margins, and describe their overall approach […]

Tagged

Tagged

author communications editing editor editor-author relationship fiction nonfiction publishing revising Rosemary Shipton writing

Filed under:

Wasted Words: Exploration or Exploitation?

May 15, 2018 by Wilf Popoff | 9 Comments on Wasted Words: Exploration or Exploitation?

At times this blog can set off a chain reaction. When Anna Williams wrote about childhood reading, I began exploring my fading cranial archive. Anita Jenkins focused my search with her comments on Grey Owl’s cultural appropriation. I must confess that a lot of the books of my youth would be, in today’s climate, politically […]

Tagged

Tagged

cultural appropriation exploitation exploration nonfiction political correctness reading Wasted Words Wilf Popoff