Episode 105
Editorial humility: Who’s the boss of the book?
The Editing Podcast · Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)
December 6, 20229m 2s
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Show Notes
We discuss editorial humility and the question we should ask ourselves at the start of every project: Who’s the boss of the book?
Listen to find out more about
- Why the author is the boss of their book
- The kinds of changes we make
- Explaining the why of our edits
- Working with anxious authors
- Discovering the root of the author's worries
- Sample editing to reassure both parties
- Establishing the terms of service
- How editors provide services, not products
- When editors do get to be the boss
- 'Humbly, your copyeditor' (Liz Jones, Responsive Editing)
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Denise and Louise
- Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
- Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing
Music credit
'Vivacity’ by Kevin MacLeod
- Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4593-vivacity
- Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/