Recently, New York Times bestselling author Tim Ferriss (The 4-Hour Work Week) put out a call for a managing editor. Curious, we decided to see what kind of editorial help he was looking for, to determine if there might be lessons for self-pubs everywhere. After all,...
by David Carr David Carr is a book editor from the San Francisco Bay Area here in California. His last article for TheBookDesigner was Dear Author: Deciding on a Voice. Today he turns to a problem that many authors confront when they decide to self-publish: how do you...
I’ve made my living for the past couple of decades almost exclusively from swimming in various parts of the pool that is the publishing world. I’ve been a publisher, a developmental editor, a line (or substantive) editor, a copy editor, a proofreader, a...
by Anne Ross Today I have a guest post for you from Anne Ross. Anne is an editor with a wide range of experience, and here she talks about a subject that’s really critical for every self-publisher: how to find, work with, and budget for book editing. I’ve...
