Description
Book SynopsisThis is a small book of commonsense advice to authors and editors – how to practise their own crafts successfully, and how they may work most effectively with one another.
‘As managing editor of a publishing house,’ Stainton explains, ‘I have seen intelligent writers reject sensible improvements proposed by editors, and I have also seen experienced editors about to suggest unnecessary changes to authors. Often, though, the lively mix of good suggestions and a willing author accomplishes small wonders. That happy combination is what I aim to foster here.’
In separate sections, Stainton speaks first to authors, then to editors. A third section deals with relations between the two and a fourth provides an annotated critical bibliography of two kinds of key reference works – dictionaries and guide to style.
Elise Stainton’s shrewd words will be of practical help to everyone who is or aspires to be an author or editor. Th
