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A Day in the Life of an Author - with Paul Cornell

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A Day in the Life of an Author - with Paul Cornell

Having worked in publishing for so long I know that, from the outside looking in, it can seem a rather bewildering and daunting industry.  Most readers don't know how long it takes to put a book together, the process involved in getting a script from (a)uthor to (b)ookshelf. It takes a hell of a lot of work both from the author and publisher and all those in between including typesetters, printers and booksellers. It's usually between 12-18 months before a delivered script will see the inside of a bookshop. So what happens during that process?

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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.

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How valuable are editors to the creative process?

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How valuable are editors to the creative process?

So over the last few weeks I've seen a few discussions about the value of editors. Some authors decrying the need for such a resource and others passionately defending them. There also seemed to be quite a lot of confusion as to what it is an editor actually does. Do they do line work, structural, copyediting? What's the difference? And how do freelance editors differ from those working in a traditional publishing house? Let's find out . . .