New book What Editors Do

For anyone who writes, reads, is considering a career, or simply wants to know more about publishing, I highly recommend What Editors Do, just published by the University of Chicago Press and edited by my friend and former colleague Peter Ginna.

The book contains essays by editors of many different skills, on the entire range of books: academic, textbook, and general interest, fiction and nonfiction, adult and children's, copyediting, line editing, commissioning and acquiring, working with authors, and much more.

I'm proud that my essay on line editing, "This Needs Just a Little Work," appears in the book.

What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing