Episode 51
Do you need a specialist editor?
The Editing Podcast · Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)
May 20, 202013m 57s
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Show Notes
Louise and Denise discuss whether working with a specialist editor is necessary for all books and every type of editing.
Listen To Find Out More About:
- Fiction versus non-fiction
- The type of editing
- Subject/genre
Editing bites and other resources
- Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing), Jack Hart
- ‘The Secrets of Story Structure’, KM Weiland
- The Editing Podcast, S1E1: The different levels of editing
- Switching to Fiction (online course for aspiring fiction editors)
- Research tools for crime and thriller writers (blog post)
- Consulting Cops
- The Art of Firearms in Fiction is a free 45-page primer featuring Steve Allen, a soldier-turned-editor who specializes in military particulars, with additional material from Aden Nichols, an editor and Special Forces veteran.
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Denise and Louise
Music credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License