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Everyone Needs an Editor: A Final Lesson from the Harry Potter Series Principle Five: All good writing needs good editing

[by Jane Ryder with Beth Jusino]

“So why couldn’t Malfoy have brought that necklace into the school?”

“Oh, Harry, not that again…”

Many readers, myself included, echoed Hermione Grangers’ frustration at that point in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

For the past few weeks we have been looking at JK Rowling’s best-selling Harry Potter books, and the lessons that aspiring authors […]

By |2022-02-15T20:39:48+00:00|The Editorial Process, The Writer’s Craft, Trends|Comments Off on Everyone Needs an Editor: A Final Lesson from the Harry Potter Series Principle Five: All good writing needs good editing
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A World to Remember: More Lessons from the Harry Potter Series Principle Four: Create a world the reader will remember

This blog is part of the Storytelling lessons from Harry Potter series. For part one, click here. For part two, click here. For part three, click here.

Diagon Alley. The Quidditch World Cup.The Chamber of Secrets. The Cupboard Under the Stairs. Platform Nine and Three-Quarters.

These were not places […]

By |2021-05-12T16:36:11+00:00|Fantasy, Getting Published, The Editorial Process, The Writer’s Craft, Trends|Comments Off on A World to Remember: More Lessons from the Harry Potter Series Principle Four: Create a world the reader will remember
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My Neighbor Is My Editor A seasoned pro takes aim at the notion that anyone with eyes can be an editor

This just in: your neighbor’s English skills are probably not up to the standards of book publishing.

When I first began editing books, I had been a professional editor for more than twenty years, at a New York-area newspaper, a regional magazine, and several magazines with an international readership. Perfectionist that I was at the time, I could quote […]

By |2021-03-18T16:56:52+00:00|MF, The Editor’s Craft, The Editorial Process|Comments Off on My Neighbor Is My Editor A seasoned pro takes aim at the notion that anyone with eyes can be an editor
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What Editors (Really) Do A guide for authors, by Editorial Department founder Renni Browne

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So in one of my favorite New Yorker cartoons by Sam Gross, we have a cat maniacally clawing an upholstered chair, obviously not for the first time, and its owner explaining to her guests: “We believe that in […]

By |2022-02-21T19:31:14+00:00|RDB, The Editor’s Craft, The Editorial Process|Comments Off on What Editors (Really) Do A guide for authors, by Editorial Department founder Renni Browne
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Still More About Our Sentence-Level Editing Services A guide for authors trying to decide which level of service is appropriate

Line editing, copy editing, and proofreading are all hands-on services where your editor works with the words on the page directly. While there is some degree of overlap in the purview of each service, these are three fundamentally different kinds of editing that serve three very specific objectives. Understanding what each service is and […]

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The Editorial Process 101

A Step-by-Step Guide to Readying a Book for Publication

These days, it seems everyone wants to self-publish a book. And that is both a tremendous freedom afforded to all who have the desire, and a scary proposition for a market now flooded with books and no process for quality control. This means a lot of people are publishing […]

By |2019-06-19T18:09:31+00:00|Self Publishing, The Editorial Process|Comments Off on The Editorial Process 101
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