Are there any book publishers or editors on line?

[greenbriar]

I am in the process of a project and I could use some advice.



Thanks in advance

[patrice]

1. Grammar? Punctuation? Style?

[greenbriar]

11. at this point, it is just an idea

but it could be really useful

[Book Lover]

2. What kind of editing?

General text? Copy edit? Proofing? Developmental? Video?

on edit: What kind of book editing? I have been in book publishing for nearly 15 years; if I can't give you an answer I can point you in the right direction...

[greenbriar]

4. I am not sure. IT is for lesson plans made easy

in my capicity as a teacher, I have some ideas to make ready made product for teachers to use in the subject I teach. I have ordered several things that claim to be what I need, but they never are 1. either usable with ease of student understanding, or 2. compatible with the textbook.

[Book Lover]

7. I would suggest

contacting the publishers that make the books you use. There might be a set of names and credits on the copyright page of what you've got. You would want to talk with an acquisitions editor. Are you thinking about going to the publishers of the core text you use, or the publishers of the supplementary materials?

[greenbriar]

9. I dont' know

it really would not be directly from the core textbook. I have been researching the material from several books to see what is common.

[grasswire]

3. ??

Fiction? Not fiction?

[greenbriar]

5. non-fiction

and how to get it to the right people

[Rick Myers]

6. I've done technical editing on a number of computer software books

But I'm sure there are some folks here that could give you more accurate info...

[greenbriar]

13. that sounds interesting

thanks

[Squeech]

8. If you want general advice

do a search on Teresa Neilsen Hayden. She's an editor for one of the most prominent SF publishers (I think it's Tor) and she's active in the fan community as well, and she publishes a lot of advice on the web in various forums. And she seems to be unnaturally sensible. Her own blog is called Making Light, but I'm not sure there are links to her many other web publications, unless there's a discussion about writing in progress.

She might even offer personal advice about your project.

[greenbriar]

10. thanks, I will

thank you

[greenbriar]

12. this is a project

that would include activities ready made so overworked teachers and new teachers could have multiple intelligence activities that meet standards

[UTUSN]

14. So--------You're Not Male/Bald/Bulky/Wingnut????

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/152/

.... Then Judith and Rupert found each other -- and ReganBooks was born. Not only did their commercial instincts mesh, but Judy's what's-the-world-ever-done-for-me politics were highly compatible with the Murdoch view.

And then the sex part. It's a one-woman show.

I have never heard anyone talk about sex the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone talk about their sexual partners the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone analyze individual motivations, the workings of the marketplace, and politics, too, in such precisely sexual terms. The other day, on her show, she kept interrupting her tempered guests on the subject of why women like Bill Clinton, and, voice rising, saying: "They want to have sex with him -- that's why they like him!"

Early in her career at Simon & Schuster, she published a book called The Rogue Warrior and fought tooth and nail for a full-face cover photo of the author. "Don't they understand?" she stormed to me. "Women will buy this because they want to fuck him!" She got the full face and a best-seller.

http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical/newlow.htm

Regan looked straight into the camera and for almost 10 minutes, delivered a pseudo stream-of-consciousness poetry riff mocking Clinton. Referring to his sad boyhood, she mocked his loneliness, then proclaimed that he built himself up and called himself KING, because "I am rich and I can do what I want!" She likened him to the cast out Socks, and envisioned him an old man meeting up with Socks at 125th street, both holding tin cups. ....

It was incredibly vicious. What was especially appalling was how she took the most painful aspects of Bill's background--his truly grievous childhood--and twisted them, using them to mock him. If this wasn't the "politics of personal destruction" I don't know how else you could describe this horrific display. ....

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