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Editorial and Author Support
Services by Gary Kessler, freelance book editor and novelist
The world of book publishing can become overwhelming to the new author. This web site is designed to help writers organize their approach to writing books and to targeting those books to likely literary agents or publishers. I am a freelance book editor who works primarily for traditional publishers, editing and packaging books after they have already been accepted for publication. Over the past ten years, I have edited more than 140 published books for over 30 mainline publishers. My services are also available to authors who wish help in preparing their work for submission to publishers--but I am neither a literary agent nor an acquisitions editor for publishers. In addition, I am also a short story writer and aspiring novelist myself (when I can find time from editing), and, through this Web site, I am sharing my own published works and writing endeavors as they unfold. Much of what you will find on this site is the result of experience I have gathered both in reworking manuscripts at the direction of a publisher for publication and in seeking publishers for my own work--and, most important, the guidance and discussion you will find here is FREE. The Web site
provides information on the Services
I offer, my Topical Specialties,
and my Experience, Client List, Book Projects, and sample Author Acknowledgments. There is a lot you can do to educate yourself on the writing and publication process for free. To start digging into this arena, check out the Author Tips, Manuscript Preparation Tips, Resources, and Links areas. At the very end of the Editing Section, you will find four articles I have written that have been posted on various writer's Web sites and that provide help to authors in search of how to get organized in finding an agent or publisher ("Method in the Madness: Finding a Good Agent or Publisher"); deciding whether an independent edit is needed, and, if so, how to go about getting one done ("Pondering the Whether/How of Seeking a Private Edit"); ideas on self-promoting book sales, especially for self-publishers ("Self-Marketing Tips and Resources"); and figuring out whether/how to self-publish ("Miscellaneous Discussion and Resource Tips on Self-Publishing"). I am a short
story writer and developing novelist myself as well as the volume editor of
two series of anthologies of prose and poetry. I invite you to check out my Books Published, Books to Come, and Links areas. The Books to Come section of this Web site currently features no books, as none of my manuscripts are currently in printing. At Books in Progress, I provide descriptions of multiple books now being written or rewritten in preparation for publication, including a murder mystery, What the Spider Saw, which will be published in March 2011 by Cedar Creek Publishing. Contact Information Please
feel free to contact me with questions and comments at gkessler@editsbooks.com.
Note, however, that I am neither a literary agent nor a publisher, so it
would not be an efficient use of your time and resources to contact me in
either of those capacities.
Finding Go! is a practical, no-nonsense resource that provides basic explanations, definitions, print resources, and Internet links to updated information for writers seeking publication of their works.
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