by Matthew Bennett | Dec 4, 2017 | Blog
Thomas McCormack’s The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist (Paul Dry, 1988) is a standard guide for editors of novels. Similar (and better) works now offer a more schematic approach. I’ll review the related Self-Editing for the Fiction Writer (William...
by Matthew Bennett | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
Transformations are difficult. Especially difficult when your formation as an academic prepares you in oblique ways for what you desire to become: a writer. William Germano’s From Dissertation to Book (U Chicago, 2005) is nearly a classic in the books-on-writing...
by Matthew Bennett | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
Let’s begin with a book that serves as an inspiring and comprehensive introduction to the art of developmental editing, my own preferred corner of the craft. If you’re curious to know the different levels of editorial intervention (copyediting, line editing, and...
