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Editor’s Notes: Making Beautiful Music Together

by PennyFreeman | Jul 10, 2014 | Editor's Notes

BY KRISTINA HARRIS I’ve been playing the violin for over twenty years. As someone who is comfortable with my instrument, and music in general, I can hear musical pitch pretty well and can tune any violin quite easily using just one note from a piano: the sound of an...

Editor’s Notes: The Lowly Proofreader

by PennyFreeman | Jun 28, 2014 | Editor's Notes

BY RIE SHERIDAN ROSE I’m Just a Proofreader . . . Nobody Loves Me . . . Okay, maybe that paraphrase of Bohemian Rhapsody is a little silly, but when it comes to the world of editing, the function is often overlooked, and it shouldn’t be. After all the editing of the...

Editor’s Notes: Ramping Up The Tension

by PennyFreeman | Jun 25, 2014 | Editor's Notes, Writing

BY JESSICA SHEN While plot and character and setting are all well and good (I mean, I GUESS those components are important…) what will really keep your reader up to ungodly hours of the night flipping pages is tension. Tension, conflict, peril—these all compel us to...

Editor’s Notes: To Edit or Not To Edit

by PennyFreeman | Jun 17, 2014 | Editor's Notes, Writing

BY ELIZABETH GILLILAND We creative types tend to be a bit temperamental when it comes to our work, and for good reason. We’ve put months, years, sweat, blood, tears, and endless buckets of caffeine and chocolate into our projects. They are, in short, our babies. Our...

Editor’s Notes: The Art of Negotiation

by PennyFreeman | Jun 13, 2014 | Editor's Notes

BY TERRI WAGNER Before We Edit “We have accepted your manuscript, and are offering you a contract.” Those words generally make an author jump for joy. As your future editors, we have mixed feelings when that offer comes around. First, we are as excited as you are...

Editor’s Notes: More Than The Sum of Its Parts

by PennyFreeman | Jun 10, 2014 | Editor's Notes

BY MERILYN OBLAD Once upon a time, I sat around a flint-knapping debris pile with a bunch of other people, trading life-stories and making what should have been tools out of rocks but were, in reality, just lumps of broken stone. I noticed a certain pattern of...