by Tammy Ditmore | Jul 15, 2015 | Editing
In February, I noted how announcements regarding Harper Lee’s novel Go Set a Watchman provided a glimpse of an editor’s role in creating To Kill a Mockingbird. Now that Watchman has been released, Lee’s editor is getting even more attention. I have not read...
by Tammy Ditmore | May 12, 2015 | Editing, Publishing
It’s always great when I get a chance to hold my work in my hand–literally. Helping an author take words and ideas and shape them into a book is the most rewarding part of my job. So it’s been fun in the past few weeks to receive copies of the final...
by Tammy Ditmore | May 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
My final summary of the Independent Book Publishing Association’s Publishing University 2015 has been posted in the May newsletter of the Small Publishers, Writers, Artists Network. SPAWN is an affiliate organization of IBPA, and I was fortunate this year to be...
by Tammy Ditmore | Apr 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Who will read your book? Who will purchase your book? Who will refer your book? Writers who don’t know the answer to those questions may find themselves with a wonderfully written, carefully edited, beautifully designed book that never sells. But writers and...
by Tammy Ditmore | Apr 25, 2015 | Editing, Publishing
Books are the ultimate niche product. And they’re getting “nichier” every year, according to a number of people I heard and talked to at the Independent Book Publishing Association’s Publishing University 2015. Peter Hildick-Smith of Codex-Group opened Pub U 2015 with...
