Roz Morris, author, and editor, informs us about the best way to find an editor. I found this is a post to share. It’s very important to many of us. Thank you very much Roz!
I was asked this recently by Lyda McLallan who was working on a blog for HuffPost. I don’t know if the piece was published, but these are questions I get a lot, so I thought I’d answer them here.
It all began when Lyda asked…
What should you do before you hire an editor…
Me: Talk to them!
1 Establish the kind of editing that will be suitable for your manuscript. Authors are often surprised that there are many things an editor can do.
They usually know about the mistake-spotting edits – proof reading or copy editing – but they don’t know there’s a more fundamental stage to do first, especially for an author who’s new to publishing or is working outside their normal area of experience – I work with a lot of authors who are converting to fiction after a successful career in non-fiction or drama. What they most need is a developmental edit.
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Really solid advice, thanks for sharing this. There’s a lot here for people to really think about.
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I know, isn’t it? It took me a long time to find the right editor. Now I’m enthusiastic I found him. He’s amazing to work with! But not everybody is as lucky.
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