John Gwynne

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Publication Day for CITY OF LIES.

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Publication Day for CITY OF LIES.

Sam Hawkes’ debut fantasy, CITY OF LIES, is published today by Tor US. It’s taken three years, a lot of sweat, blood and poison, lots of excitement and the day is finally here. So do say Happy Book Birthday to the excited author! :-)

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On editing, and being edited

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On editing, and being edited

So I did a blog piece last week about the types and styles of editing there were. I concentrated predominantly on traditional publishing editors because that’s what I’d spent the last fifteen years doing!

Here I go into a bit more detail about what I used to do with an editorial report and get an author's perspective on how their experience of the process was.

A Change of Direction

A Change of Direction

The beginning of a journey. After fifteen years working within publishing - most recently as the editorial director of Tor UK publishing authors such as China Mieville, Peter F. Hamilton and a whole host of fabulous genre authors - I start up on my own.