Showing posts with label editing other people's books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label editing other people's books. Show all posts
02 April 2020

A Picture Book for Patriots Day

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A couple of years ago, I did a specialized editorial job for Disney’s publishing wing. The company contacted me because of my research i...
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20 October 2014

Got My Copies Today

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Colonial Comics editorial team drawn by Noel Tuazon .
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02 October 2014

No Need to Complicate Things

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Sarah Lyall of the New York Times noted some oddities in her advance reading copy of Moriarty , a latter-day Sherlock Holmes novel by An...
18 February 2014

Illustrating Picture Books versus Drawing Comics

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Toward the end of his conversation with Skottie Young on the Stuff Said podcast , artist Gregg Schigiel asks about Young’s experience illu...
30 December 2013

Profit and Loss

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Last week the New York Times published book editor Gerald Howard’s essay reminiscing about editorial tasks in the early 1980s : I had the ...
12 December 2013

The Remains

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Rebecca Mead and George Prochnik’s essay “Book-Club Guide to a Remaindered Book” has got to be the least-sympathetic-to-authors article on ...
07 November 2013

Fresh Music on Fresh Air

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I remember discovering Terri Gross and her Fresh Air radio interviews soon after I started work in publishing. I thought they were terrif...
31 August 2013

I Was Expecting Someone Much Older, Too

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I enjoyed Publishers Weekly ’s roundup of publishing industry veterans’ memories of their early days on the job in days of electric typew...
22 August 2013

The Visual Display of Edward Tufte

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About a quarter-century ago, I was a young Editorial Assistant at a publishing company, and someone handed me a copy of Edward Tufte ’s Th...
18 August 2013

Spotting a Familiar Name

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A few months back there were a lot of pictures of Damian Wayne with Death from Neil Gaiman ’s Sandman , but I don’t recall having seen thi...
25 July 2013

Editing Dahl

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From Stephen Roxburgh’s recollections of editing Roald Dahl ’s The Witches thirty years ago, just published in Publishers Weekly : On ...
10 July 2013

“Have the end in sight”

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The Guardian asked five children’s-book editors with books up for an award [that I’ve never heard of—“Branford Boase”?] for their advice...
13 March 2013

Powers that Comics Editors Need

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Comic Book Resources carried an interesting dialogue between Louise Simonson and Ann Nocenti, two comics writers who first edited superhero...
23 September 2012

There, I Fixed It: Tim in Batman, #0

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This month’s Batman , #0, contains a story scripted by James Tynion IV and drawn by Andy Clarke which shows the new DC Universe’s Dick Gra...
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29 September 2010

Pitches Low and Outside

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In the ten years I’ve been helping to organize writers’ conferences, I’ve seen a trend toward “pitch” sessions in which writers give editors...
15 February 2010

Looking Back on American Virtue

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Today’s New York Times offers Janet Maslin’s review of The Death of American Virtue , a history of the Clinton impeachment debacle by Duqu...
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22 January 2010

Faces on Book Covers and the Lack of Market Research

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Back when I was a book editor, one of my projects was the reissue of a book about business presentations. The art director brought me a set ...
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02 January 2010

There, I Fixed It: Blue Beetle, #1

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This is a panel from the first issue of the latest Blue Beetle comic book, published from 2006 to 2009. It’s introducing Jaime, the teenage...
18 December 2009

Writing Advice on Responding to Criticism

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There’s the wrong way, as in the recent case study dissected by Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light . And there’s the right way, from an a...
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22 November 2009

Reviewing The Black Casebook

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Batman: The Black Casebook is marketed as the stories that inspired Grant Morrison ’s issues of Batman magazine, and the direction he’s dr...