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Evaluating Nonfiction: A Nonfiction Editor Shares His Perspective What can set your nonfiction manuscript up for success ... or doom it to the reject pile
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Evaluating Nonfiction: A Nonfiction Editor Shares His Perspective What can set your nonfiction manuscript up for success ... or doom it to the reject pile

The Editor’s Craft and Process

Evaluating Nonfiction: A Nonfiction Editor Shares His Perspective What can set your nonfiction manuscript up for success ... or doom it to the reject pile

Fiction lives or dies by the author’s storytelling and writing skills (and perseverance and some luck). For nonfiction, then, one might assume that likewise, an interesting topic well elucidated will do the job. However, the publishing industry and readers regard nonfiction a bit differently.

One reason to hire a nonfiction editor is to make sure […]

By Peter Gelfan|2025-06-27T20:29:17+00:00|The Editor’s Craft and Process|Comments Off

The First Duty of a Manuscript Critique: Honest Feedback What to expect when your manuscript has serious problems—and why candor serves writers best
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The First Duty of a Manuscript Critique: Honest Feedback What to expect when your manuscript has serious problems—and why candor serves writers best

The Editor’s Craft and Process

The First Duty of a Manuscript Critique: Honest Feedback What to expect when your manuscript has serious problems—and why candor serves writers best

[by Ross Browne]

The first thing I’d put on the table in connection with how we handle very flawed manuscripts can, I hope, go without saying. And that is that we never want to be discouraging to an author. There’s no pleasure in telling a writer that a manuscript needs deep rewriting rather than editing or that […]

By Ross Browne|2025-11-10T15:57:00+00:00|The Editor’s Craft and Process|Comments Off