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Successful writers spend a lot more time editing than they do writing. They know that first drafts need extensive revisions to ensure their stories or messages come across clearly and effectively. In this book you'll find a wealth of suggestions from best-selling authors who have studied editing techniques and implemented them in their books, which have touched the hearts and lives of readers around the world. If you're an aspiring, beginning, or intermediate writer, this book will help you polish your manuscript and get it ready for publication. If you're an established author, these tips can help you edit other writers' manuscripts, either in a critique group setting or as an editorial freelancer.

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Editing Secrets of Best-Selling Authors is an excellent resource, especially for aspiring authors hoping to turn professional. This book includes a comprehensive primer on the many layers and facets of the editorial process, sandwiched between gold nuggets of advice from authors who have traveled the road before us. --Lindsay A. Franklin, best-selling author and award-winning freelance editor I wish everyone who had submitted a manuscript to me as an acquisitions editor had read this book first. What helpful tips and techniques to boost your writing to the next level! --Erin Taylor Young, author, podcaster, speaker, cohost of Write from the Deep

Editing Secrets of Best-Selling Authors is an excellent resource, especially for aspiring authors hoping to turn professional. This book includes a comprehensive primer on the many layers and facets of the editorial process, sandwiched between gold nuggets of advice from authors who have traveled the road before us. --Lindsay A. Franklin, best-selling author and award-winning freelance editor I wish everyone who had submitted a manuscript to me as an acquisitions editor had read this book first. What helpful tips and techniques to boost your writing to the next level! --Erin Taylor Young, author, podcaster, speaker, cohost of Write from the Deep

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Kathy Ide is the author of Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors and the Capitalization Dictionary and editor/compiler of the Fiction Lover's Devotional series. She has been a professional freelance editor since 1998. She directs the SoCal Christian Writers' Conference and Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference. She is the owner of Christian Editor Network, parent company to four organizations that assist freelance editors and help authors find established, reliable editors. For more about Kathy, visit www.KathyIde.com.

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