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10 things an author needs to tell an editor
Episode 33

10 things an author needs to tell an editor

The Editing Podcast · Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)

September 25, 20199m 12s

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Show Notes

Denise and Louise talk about 10 things writers need to tell an editor when they get in touch for the first time to discuss a project.

Listen to find out more about:

  1. Word count
  2. File format
  3. Genre or subject
  4. Other rounds of editing
  5. The type of editing required
  6. Intended audience and where you’re publishing
  7. Time frame
  8. What else you’ve written
  9. Whether you can send a sample
  10. How you found your editor

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Music credit

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License