The Forest for the Trees An Editor's Advice to Writers

by Lerner, Betsy

• ISBN13: 9781573228572
• ISBN10: 1573228575
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Riverhead Trade

Summary

Personal inspiration and practical advice from an expert in the field who delivers.

Author Biography

Betsy Lerner has worked as an editor at Houghton Mifflin, Ballantine, Simon & Schuster, and was most recently executive editor at Doubleday. She began her editing career working for literary journals, including the Minetta Review and The Paris Review, and co-founded the magazine Big Wednesday. She has been awarded the Tony Godwin Fellowship and was selected as a Jerusalem Book Fair fellow. A published poet, she is currently a literary agent at the Gernert Company. She is married to John Donatich, publisher of Basic Books.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Writing
The Ambivalent Writer	p. 13
The Natural	p. 31
The Wicked Child	p. 49
The Self-Promoter	p. 71
The Neurotic	p. 93
Touching Fire	p. 113
Publishing
Making Contact: Seeking Agents and Publication	p. 135
Rejection	p. 162
What Editors Want	p. 182
What Authors Want	p. 209
The Book	p. 232
Publication	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 278
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