How does one go about choosing an editor?
Log on to the EFA website and look around for someone who specializes in the subject you are writing on? Or rely on a sample edit of your work?
Do credentials and experience really matter (people can make things sound more impressive than they really are)? Wouldn’t the real good editors – those who work on bestsellers – be unavailable to unknown/aspiring writers? Would they be listed on EFA? And would their rates be substantially higher than the rest?
I’m looking at a substantive edit – would an editor specializing in nonfiction with experience in a big publishing house be able to do justice to a book on philosophy that includes evolutionary theory, genetics, and neuroscience on a basic level, or must one look for a scientific editor? I am writing for a general audience (I take Richard Dawkins’ writing style as the gold standard) – not sure if an editor of academic/scholarly works would really be able to help with that.
Log on to the EFA website and look around for someone who specializes in the subject you are writing on? Or rely on a sample edit of your work?
Do credentials and experience really matter (people can make things sound more impressive than they really are)? Wouldn’t the real good editors – those who work on bestsellers – be unavailable to unknown/aspiring writers? Would they be listed on EFA? And would their rates be substantially higher than the rest?
I’m looking at a substantive edit – would an editor specializing in nonfiction with experience in a big publishing house be able to do justice to a book on philosophy that includes evolutionary theory, genetics, and neuroscience on a basic level, or must one look for a scientific editor? I am writing for a general audience (I take Richard Dawkins’ writing style as the gold standard) – not sure if an editor of academic/scholarly works would really be able to help with that.