The layout phase of publishing is often when many people start seeing their publications take a professional look, and that’s true. However, layout is not where a project “starts.” It works much better when the…
An editorial brief is a concise planning document designed to prevent a book project from becoming a guessing game. It doesn’t have to be complex or written in stiff, formal language. Its only job is…
Picture a text that suffers from a lackluster first paragraph, a few wordy sentences, and a character with two spellings of their name. If you were in a novice editor’s shoes, you might be tempted…
When you are getting started in this, it may help to think of publishing as a process of checks, decisions, and handoffs. The manuscript at that point has its core idea, chapters, sections, scenes, lessons,…