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Publishing Symbology6 Feb 20217 Feb 2021

The Manuscript Appraisal

You can count on our support you as you create relationships with readers from all over the world.

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Fireside Chats Publishing13 Oct 202013 Oct 2020

What Editors Do | Interview with Peter Ginna

“It’s really important to love a book when you acquire it. If you don’t have that kind of emotional commitment to something, you wind up second-guessing yourself…”

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Publishing Symbology10 Jun 202017 Jun 2020

The Writer-Editor Relationship | My Biggest Fan and Strongest Critic

A writer is very close to their work. What may appear to be an error to the editor, may go unnoticed in the eyes of the author. That is the difference between a writer and an editor. A little tough love here and there from the editor is only to bring out the best in the writer.

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Publishing Symbology8 Jun 202022 Jul 2020

The Midwife’s Journey | Ten Things Editors Wish Authors Knew

If the author is the mother giving birth, I am the midwife making sure that the baby comes into this world safe and sound. Each work of creation is different, and comes into this world through a different passage. Having worked with lots of writers and writing styles, I know that it’s a different experience each time. No two births are ever the same. 

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Fireside Chats Symbology7 Jun 202017 Jun 2020

The Author-Editor Relationship | The Mother and the Midwife

To authors, a book is a precious baby that they’ve nurtured and brought into this world. But giving birth is almost never a solitary process. The editor is the midwife – the one that stands by the author and pushes the writer as they labour through the long hours before the baby is finally born. 

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Spirituality Symbology28 Apr 2020

The Mind’s Jail: The Four Commandments of Facing Writer’s Block

Every time I feel this way, I shove my write-up aside, as far away from me as possible, even if the guilt chews me from inside. No matter how hard I try, I don’t seem to come up with anything at all. I went through this feeling about a couple of thousand times before I understood something very important about writing and writer’s block.

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