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What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing de Peter Ginna

What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

Editat de Peter Ginna
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 oct 2017

Remarcăm de la bun început organizarea riguroasă a volumului What Editors Do, coordonat de Peter Ginna. Structura este concepută ca un parcurs logic în trei etape: de la faza de achiziție, unde editorul identifică potențialul unui manuscris, trecând prin procesul tehnic de transformare a propunerii în carte, până la momentul final al aducerii lucrării în fața publicului. Această progresie oferă o viziune panoramică asupra unei profesii adesea învăluite în mister, demonstrând că munca editorială depășește cu mult simpla corectare a textului.

Apreciem diversitatea perspectivelor incluse; cele 27 de eseuri acoperă segmente variate, de la editurile comerciale mari până la publicațiile academice și manualele universitare. Cititorul va învăța regulile specifice achizițiilor în diverse nișe, dinamica relației dintre autor și editor și diferențele critice între editarea de dezvoltare (developmental editing), care vizează structura de ansamblu, și editarea stilistică (line editing), axată pe claritate și ritm. Abordarea diferă de Book Commissioning and Acquisition de Gill Davies prin faptul că este mai puțin un manual tehnic abstract și mai mult o colecție de bune practici aplicabile, ancorate în experiențe reale de viață profesională. În timp ce alte titluri se concentrează strict pe mecanismele pieței, volumul de față tratează echilibrul fin dintre pasiunea pentru text și realitățile economice dure ale industriei.

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care este definit rolul editorului ca „gardian” al calității, dar și ca partener strategic al autorului. Cartea demonstrează că, într-un peisaj media în continuă schimbare, funcția de selecție și rafinare a informației rămâne vitală pentru orice produs cultural de relevanță.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226299976
ISBN-10: 022629997X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lucrare profesioniștilor din industria editorială, dar și autorilor care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele din spatele „cortinei”. Veți câștiga o perspectivă clară asupra procesului decizional dintr-o editură și instrumente concrete pentru a gestiona relația autor-editor. Este o resursă esențială pentru oricine dorește să transforme scrisul dintr-o activitate solitară într-un produs finit de succes pe piața de carte.

Despre autor

Peter Ginna este un editor cu o experiență vastă în peisajul editorial american, deținând poziții de conducere în case prestigioase precum Oxford University Press și Bloomsbury. De-a lungul carierei sale, s-a specializat în non-ficțiune și istorie, lucrând cu numeroși autori de renume. În prezent, activează ca editor independent și consultant, fiind o voce autorizată în dezbaterile privind viitorul cărții tipărite și digitale. Expertiza sa este dublată de calitatea de coordonator al seriei Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing la University of Chicago Press, consolidându-i statutul de mentor pentru noile generații de redactori.

Descriere scurtă

Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand the range of roles they inhabit while shepherding a project from concept to publication.

In What Editors Do, Peter Ginna gathers essays from twenty-seven leading figures in book publishing about their work. Representing both large houses and small, and encompassing trade, textbook, academic, and children’s publishing, the contributors make the case for why editing remains a vital function to writers—and readers—everywhere.

Ironically for an industry built on words, there has been a scarcity of written guidance on how to actually approach the work of editing. This book will serve as a compendium of professional advice and will be a resource both for those entering the profession (or already in it) and for those outside publishing who seek an understanding of it. It sheds light on how editors acquire books, what constitutes a strong author-editor relationship, and the editor’s vital role at each stage of the publishing process—a role that extends far beyond marking up the author’s text.

This collection treats editing as both art and craft, and also as a career. It explores how editors balance passion against the economic realities of publishing. What Editors Do shows why, in the face of a rapidly changing publishing landscape, editors are more important than ever.

Notă biografică

Peter Ginna was most recently publisher and editorial director at Bloomsbury Press; before that he held editorial positions at Oxford University Press, Crown Publishers, St. Martin’s Press, and Persea Books. He has taught editing in New York University’s publishing program, and comments on editing, books, and publishing at the blog Doctor Syntax and on Twitter at @DoctorSyntax.

Cuprins

Introduction. The Three Phases of Editing
 
Part I. Acquisition: Finding the Book
 
1 Where It All Begins by Peter Ginna
2 The Alchemy of Acquisitions: Twelve Rules for Trade Editors by Jonathan Karp
3 Thinking Like A Scholarly Editor: The How and Why of Academic Publishing by Gregory M. Britton
4 The Lords of Disciplines: Acquiring College Textbooks by Peter Coveney
 
Part II. The Editing Process: From Proposal to Book

5 The Book’s Journey by Nancy S. Miller
6 What Love’s Got to Do With It: The Author– Editor Relationship by Betsy Lerner
7 The Other Side of the Desk: What I Learned about Editing When I Became a Literary Agent by Susan Rabiner
8 Open-Heart Surgery or Just a Nip and Tuck? Developmental Editing by Scott Norton
9 This Just Needs a Little Work: On Line Editing by George Witte
10 toward Accuracy, Clarity, and Consistency: What Copyeditors Do by Carol Fisher Saller
 
Part III. Publication: Bringing the Book to the Reader
 
11 The Flip Side of the Pizza: The Editor as Manager by Michael Pietsch
12 Start Spreading the News: The Editor as Evangelist by Calvert D. Morgan Jr.
13 The Half-Open Door: Independent Publishing and Community by Jeff Shotts
 
Part IV. From Mystery to Memoir: Categories and Case Studies
 
14 Listening to the Music: Editing Literary Fiction by Erika Goldman
15 Dukes, Deaths, and Dragons: Editing Genre Fiction by Diana Gill
16 Marginalia: On Editing General Nonfiction by Matt Weiland
17 Once Upon a Time Lasts Forever: Editing Books for Children by Nancy Siscoe
18 Lives That Matter: Editing Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir by Wendy Wolf
19 Of Monographs and Magnum Opuses: Editing Works of Scholarship by Susan Ferber
20 Reliable Sources: Reference Editing and Publishing by Anne Savarese
21 The Pink Should be a Surprise: Creating Illustrated Books by Deb Aaronson
 
Part V. Pursuing a Publishing Career: Varieties of Editorial Experience
 
22 Widening the Gates: Why Publishing Needs Diversity by Chris Jackson
23 The Apprentice: On Being an Editorial Assistant by Katie Henderson Adams
24 This Pencil for Hire: Making a Career as a Freelance Editor by Katharine O’Moore-Klopf
25 The Self-Publisher as Self-Editor by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry
26 A New Age of Discovery: The Editor’s Role in a Changing Publishing Industry by Jane Friedman
Conclusion. As Time Goes By: The Past and Future of Editing
 
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Further Resources
About the Editor
Index
 

Recenzii

"These honest and unflinching accounts from publishing insiders are a valuable primer on the field at a time where the value of editors and publishers has been increasingly questioned."

“Illuminating.”

“Ginna has collected essays from 27 of his peers in the book business on everything from the importance of the author-editor relationship to the challenges of editing genre fiction to the ways editors must function as evangelists, creating buzz for their books.”

“A vital resource for writers and readers seeking a comprehensive exploration into the author-editor relationship, the lifecycle of a book, and how editors for publishing houses big and small have adapted to an industry in constant flux.”

“Detailed and comprehensive in scope . . . The book explicitly aims to keep in check any romantic notions of an editor’s life, emphasizing that editors take meetings, publicize books, and check contracts at least as often as they make marks on manuscripts or host boozy lunches.”

“Every editor should read this book. It’s a top-notch resource no matter what niche or stage of career an editor is in.”

“Exceptionally well written. The prose is authoritative, entertaining, and informative. Each chapter is written by a leader in that topic’s realm.”

“What Editors Do belongs on the shelf of any serious editor.”

“Absolutely essential reading for anyone who aspires to be an editor, as well as critically important reading for authors and publishers with respect to the critically important role that editors play in the publishing process.”

“Offers an excellent opportunity for would-be authors to see the world through the eyes of publishers/editors.”

“What Editors Do is the most informative and intelligent book on the work of publishing that you can own. In this collection, some of the best people involved in publishing in the 21st century write lucidly and engrossingly about everything that is important to editors and writers. A lively book that will also be great armchair reading for any book lover. As an editor and publisher of thirty years, I cannot recommend this book more highly.”

“Editors do a lot—patiently, coolly, analytically, but also boldly, urgently, fervently. Their work, almost always invisible, makes ideas speak and books fly. What Editors Do shows just how varied—and valuable—editors are, especially now when the well-edited book is more necessary than ever.”

“What Editors Do is essential reading for anyone who wants to edit, be edited, or learn how publishing really works. It’s also thoroughly delightful—the chance to learn from a wide variety of industry greats as they share frank and fascinating stories about how all sorts of books, famous and unknown, came to life. I’ve worked in publishing for more than three decades but still learned volumes from this book.”