Editing

A few years ago at a Radcliffe Institute exhibit, I came across photos of a draft of what would become Angela Davis' autobiography. A foundational Black literary text, bare-boned and vulnerable, is not something you often get to see. The manuscript bloomed with the strokes of a blue pen, notes from the editor on what needed to be changed.  Read more

No longer able to take my long twice-daily walk from Penn Station to Rockefeller Center as I was no longer commuting into the city, I'd initially worried (along with dozens of other worries) that quarantine would turn me into a chair-potato. I needn't have fretted.

Whether you're writing a novel, memoir or how-to book, a manuscript evaluation can be an economical opportunity to have your work reviewed by a professional editor before you begin querying and submitting.  Read more

Indie authors all agree: hiring an editor to work on your manuscript is one of the best and most necessary investments an author can make. Editing takes both time and money and can encompass anything from a substantiative (i.e.  Read more

"Mistakes are reminders that books are made by humans and not gods," a publisher once told me when I was a relatively new editor, bemoaning a typo that had managed to slip through. Those words brought me some comfort at the time. And now, all these years later, in my role as publisher of two imprints, those words come to mind often-because where there are books, there are errors.  Read more