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Category: Ask the Editor

Professional book editor Ally Machate

Ask the Editor: Ally Machate

Book consultant and editor Ally Machate is today’s guest on Ask the Editor – the series where we catch up with professional book editors and pick their brains for top advice that can make your life in publishing a whole lot easier. Owner of The Writer’s Ally, Ally sports an impressive history in the editorial field. […]

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Ask the Editor, interview with Beth Hill

Ask the Editor: Beth Hill

On this edition of Ask the Editor, we’re sitting down for an in-depth chat with the one and only Beth Hill. Beth is a freelance fiction editor who’s been forever fascinated by the creative power of words. She loves that words can create new worlds and people, characters so real that readers in the 3-D […]

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Ask the Editor - Ray Rhamey

Ask the Editor: Ray Rhamey

In this edition of our Q&A series, Ask the Editor, say hello to Ray Rhamey! Ray is an author, freelance fiction editor, and book designer (crrreative.com). He has been editing (developmental/content editing) book-length fiction since 2003. Before that, he was a copywriter and creative director in the advertising industry, and story editor/screenwriter at Filmation, an […]

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Ask the Editor: Greg Fidgeon

This time on Ask the Editor, we’re joined by UK-based journalist, copywriter and developmental editor Greg Fidgeon! Having mastered his editorial skills throughout years behind the pages of local and national newspapers, Greg currently acts as sub-editor for popular UK tabloid The Sun, and operates his own writing and fiction/non-fiction editorial service in the form […]

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Robbi Bryant

Ask the Editor: Robbi Sommers Bryant

In this episode of Ask the Editor, we’re joined by the talented Robbi Sommers Bryant! Having worked as a professional, multi-genre editor since 2011, Robbi has also been published both traditionally and through self-publishing. Her award-winning books include a novella, four novels, five short-story collections, and one book of poetry. Published in magazines including Readers […]

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Geoff Brown of Cohesion Press, editor and publisher

Ask the Editor: Geoff Brown (Cohesion Press)

To many of us, especially if you’ve rarely (or never!) worked with your own personal editor, the ins, outs, expectations and daily frustrations of the editing life can feel like a bit of a mystery. A strange land the writer just isn’t fully equipped to traverse unscathed. Which of your possible submissions are likely to […]

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