How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book
Autor Rebecca Leeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 mar 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781788166379
ISBN-10: 178816637X
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 136 x 218 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 178816637X
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 136 x 218 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Rebecca Lee is an editorial manager at Penguin Random House. She's spent twenty years managing hundreds of high profile books from delivery of manuscript to finished copies, signing off millions of words as fit to go to print with only the occasional regret.
Recenzii
Engaging, informative, and fascinating! Rebecca Lee's book is a whole education, drawn from her long experience of making books better.
Inject this straight into my veins!
A revelatory account of how books get made, and a delightful hymn to human collaboration. No really: you'll be entertained on every page!
Bibliophiles will really enjoy this ... Rebecca Lee takes you on a journey - a book's journey - and there's never a dull moment. She moves skilfully back and forth between fascinating book-making history to delightful modern-day anecdotes from both her own experience and other experts in the book-publishing profession.
A bibliophile's paradise, a trove of inside stories and fascinating facts. The journey made by words, from the mind of an author to the printed page, is surprisingly complex and often hilarious, and Rebecca Lee is the perfect guide.
Everything you could want to know, and a whole lot more you didn't even know you wanted, about the history and process of writing. Fascinating stories, secrets and nuggets of advice from inside the belly of the publishing beast. You'll finish this book wanting to get started on your own, and knowing exactly how to go about it.
A book full of good words about how words get good. Drawing on wide reading and long experience, Rebecca Lee shines a light on the talented people who work behind the scenes to bring the best possible version of a book to its readers. Revealing, readable and fun.
Beautifully written, unbelievably well informed and utterly fascinating - I adored it.
Any bibliophile will find many enjoyable nuggets in this compendium of book chat
An engaging little eye-opener about the publishing business, full of tasty nuggets about books, writers and their editors
Many enjoyable digressions ... An engaging guide to the behind-the-scenes work involved in getting a book published ... Insightful
From ghost writers to grammar, from translation to typesetting, she proves a lively and engaging guide to the long process of making a book, tracing its history from the ancient world to the modern day. ... A funny and illuminating peek into publishing below stairs.
Excellent and much-needed ..... I am not sure I have ever read anything as good on the process of getting a book into print. ... A straightforward masterpiece.
A very amiable, freely digressive omniumgatherum of book-related bits and pieces ... Interesting and unexpected
Cheerful, clearheaded
Chock-full of the kind of anecdotes that are catnip for booklovers
Book-nerd heaven
Inject this straight into my veins!
A revelatory account of how books get made, and a delightful hymn to human collaboration. No really: you'll be entertained on every page!
Bibliophiles will really enjoy this ... Rebecca Lee takes you on a journey - a book's journey - and there's never a dull moment. She moves skilfully back and forth between fascinating book-making history to delightful modern-day anecdotes from both her own experience and other experts in the book-publishing profession.
A bibliophile's paradise, a trove of inside stories and fascinating facts. The journey made by words, from the mind of an author to the printed page, is surprisingly complex and often hilarious, and Rebecca Lee is the perfect guide.
Everything you could want to know, and a whole lot more you didn't even know you wanted, about the history and process of writing. Fascinating stories, secrets and nuggets of advice from inside the belly of the publishing beast. You'll finish this book wanting to get started on your own, and knowing exactly how to go about it.
A book full of good words about how words get good. Drawing on wide reading and long experience, Rebecca Lee shines a light on the talented people who work behind the scenes to bring the best possible version of a book to its readers. Revealing, readable and fun.
Beautifully written, unbelievably well informed and utterly fascinating - I adored it.
Any bibliophile will find many enjoyable nuggets in this compendium of book chat
An engaging little eye-opener about the publishing business, full of tasty nuggets about books, writers and their editors
Many enjoyable digressions ... An engaging guide to the behind-the-scenes work involved in getting a book published ... Insightful
From ghost writers to grammar, from translation to typesetting, she proves a lively and engaging guide to the long process of making a book, tracing its history from the ancient world to the modern day. ... A funny and illuminating peek into publishing below stairs.
Excellent and much-needed ..... I am not sure I have ever read anything as good on the process of getting a book into print. ... A straightforward masterpiece.
A very amiable, freely digressive omniumgatherum of book-related bits and pieces ... Interesting and unexpected
Cheerful, clearheaded
Chock-full of the kind of anecdotes that are catnip for booklovers
Book-nerd heaven