#amwriting: What Editors Want

An editor’s job is to make your writing better, right? Wrong. At least not the editors who work for publishers. Your job is to deliver writing the publication can’t turn away, and the editor’s job is to screen out writers who miss the mark. If you don’t know what a publisher wants, you won’t make it past the gate.

Connie Jasperson explains….

Yes, they’re called gatekeepers, but they do serve a purpose.

Life in the Realm of Fantasy

Today we are discussing a particular kind of editor: the submissions editor. When I first began this journey, I didn’t understand how specifically you have to tailor your submissions when it comes to literary magazines, contests, and anthologies. Each publication has a specific market of readers, and their editors look for new works their target market will buy.

In the publishing world, there are several different kinds of editors:  line editors, structural editors, submissions editors, and so on. Each does a specific job within the industry. When you look at the annual salaries, you can see that none of these jobs pay well, so it’s clear that, while they like to eat and pay the mortgage as much as any other person, editors in all areas of publishing work in the industry because they love a good story.

I’m just going to lay it out there for you: it’s not worth…

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