Working With An Editor with Ally Blake

So, you’ve finished your book – huzzah! It has been read, re-read, polished, re-polished, every word painstakingly laid out until your precious creation is ready to be sent out into the world and hopefully to land in the hands of that magical, wondrous, mythical creature…An Editor.

But what happens then? Who reads your story? Who decides if it moves up the chain? What is the chain? Is a rejection ‘the end’? What if they actually like your book? Does the thought of facing an editorial critique bring you out in hives? What does editorial feedback even look like? Does the idea of having to hack at your ‘finished’ work again physically hurt? Do revision requests ensure a sale? How do you know when your book is actually ‘finished’ at all?

Multi-published author Ally Blake will take you through the editorial process - through submission and rejection, revisions to acceptance - all from the writers' point of view. Together you will cover the ins and outs of the submission process, decoding of editorial notes, building of self-editing scaffolds, understanding the multiple stages of editing, negotiating editorial alterations, and learning when to kill your darlings and when to protect them. Stand by, fair writers, pens poised, and prepare to learn how to Work With An Editor.