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Getting from Graduation to the Editor’s Desk
by, Jill Swenson
June 6, 2017

Learning how to become an editor doesn’t happen overnight. Editing isn’t a college major. Some English degree programs offer a specialization in editing and publishing, most do not. There are a handful of certificate programs in professional and graduate degree programs, but the art of editing goes far beyond knowing grammar and the basics of copyediting. A full-time job as an editor isn’t an entry-level… [Read More]

Filed Under: Alanna Reiser, Ava Russell, Bethany Dixon, Danielle Sherwood, editing, internship, Samantha Kolb, Skye Iwanski, Trace Sonnleitner
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Tweak: Confessions of an Editor
by, Jill Swenson
May 16, 2017

Hi. I’m Jill and I’m an editor. I enable writers. I mainline books like a junkie. I free base text into prose. I’m always jonesing for a good story. Yes, I’m hooked on grammar. I get a tremendous high when one of my writer’s books gets a starred review in Kirkus, featured in the New York Times or pops up as a question on Jeopardy…. [Read More]

Filed Under: editing, Fact-checking, genre confusion, screening questions, two spaces after a period
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Behavioral Engineering for Writers
by, Jenna Goodman
June 2, 2015

If there were some easy ways to be more productive as a writer, would you want to know about them? If so, read on. “I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.” —W. Somerset Maugham In the above quote, Maugham is getting at one of the critical distinctions between professional working writers and, well, everyone else (which here… [Read More]

Filed Under: conditioning, editing, hacks, Reading, rewriting, typing, writing
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Strayed from expectations: Wild
by, Jill Swenson
July 10, 2012

The buzz about Cheryl Strayed’s new memoir, Wild, couldn’t be ignored. If Oprah Winfrey brought back her Book Club just because of this manuscript, I knew I had to read it. Most everything Oprah recommended I’d read before she announced the selection. But Wild was a wild card thrown in my direction. The jacket described this book about the rough experiences on the Pacific Crest… [Read More]

Filed Under: Book Club, Cheryl Strayed, editing, memoir, Oprah Winfrey, Wild
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A Writing Group’s Writer
by, Bethany Dixon
September 8, 2011

A Writing Group’s Writer On August 3rd at 6pm, Buffalo Street Books hosted Leslie Daniels for a discussion of her critically acclaimed novel/fictional memoir, Cleaning Nabokov’s House. (For a review of the book on our blog, follow this link. Or, watch the book trailer here.)The discussion was open to the public, and followed suit with the bookstore’s ongoing commitment to Ithaca’s literary community with their… [Read More]

Filed Under: Buffalo Street Books, editing, Katharine Hepburn, Leslie Daniels, Local authors, manuscripts, Publishing, writing groups
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