And what does an editor do, exactly?
This isn’t, of course, a question I can answer. I’m not an editor. But I can tell you something about what it is like to be edited. And the short answer is: it’s wonderful. For my next book, So Far So Good, I’ve been working closely with Pantera Publishing’s Senior Editor Anne Reilly and she…
How to edit a manuscript
So the manuscript is returning to me gradually, a few chapters at a time. My editor at Text, Jane Pearson, met with me before sending any of it back. For over an hour she walked me through the first few chapters, explaining what she’d done and why. It looks pretty confronting on the page but…
Online Discussion with Lucy Treloar, author of Salt Creek
Last night HARDCOPY participants (past and present) were lucky enough to take part in an online Facebook discussion with Australian novelist Lucy Treloar. Here are some of the highlights of Lucy’s responses (reproduced with the permission of Lucy, and of the HARDCOPY project officer Nigel Featherstone.) For 90 minutes Lucy was inundated with questions and…