![]() ![]() Should You Hire a Professional Editor? (Jane Friedman, Writer Unboxed, 3-19-10).Should I Hire a Freelance Editor? (agent Rachelle Gardner, 3-25-10).Should You Pay Someone to Edit Your Work? (Nathan Bransform, agent-turned-author, 10-5-09).Should fiction writers hire editors? (Writer Beware's excellent links, including some of these: What It’s Actually Like to Work With a Book Editor (Blake Atwood, The Write Life, 5-22-17)."As most adults know, verbal deals have a way of drifting off course despite both parties’ best intentions, so it’s valuable to have a document that defines the deal, especially since some editing jobs can extend for months, and memories can get hazy.Learning from other editors’ advice and some bruising experience, my basic agreement is now a 50% deposit to reserve calendar time, and payment of the balance upon completion of the work but before I deliver the files." Check out this interview with writer-editor Haley by "Morgen 'with an E' Bailey." Thinking Fiction - The Indie Editor/Author Equation, Part 1 (Carolyn Haley, An American Editor, 11-27-2020) Indie fiction writing-editing-publishing is the new Wild West! How to avoid those messes and succeed as an indie editor working with indie novelists.EFA's directory of editors helps you find editors who are experienced with fiction (indeed, experienced with different kinds of fiction, as editing a literary novel is quite different from editing a gothic or zombie-horror novel -each group of readers has different expectations). So you probably don't want to hire for a copyedit until the main text is laid down. You probably want someone to do a quick read and give you general comments on structure, helping you find holes in the plot, problems with characters, etc., before hiring someone to edit sentence-by-sentence, as an editor for story structure might have you deleting or moving whole paragraphs. Beta readers (under Agents and book proposals)Ībsolutely.The novelist will tell you what it felt like." ~E.L. " Fiction is life with the dull bits left out." ~ Clive James "Everybody knows what a story is until they sit down to write one." ~ Flannery O'Connor The historian will tell you what happened. See also Fiction ghostwriting and ghostwritersĭeveloping a writing practice (The writing life) Books about editing and revising fiction.Books for fiction writers and editors (on another page of this website).Online communities for fiction writers.Organizations and sites for fiction writers and fans. ![]()
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