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The Future of Editing 2: Who Editors Need to Be

January 20, 2016 by Andy Le Peau

For me, editing has always been about loving words and loving ideas. Learning and thinking will always be important. Yet in a technology-saturated world with an ever-accelerating rate of change, we don’t know exactly what books and reading will be like in the future. We have a better idea, however, of who editors need to …

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The Future of Editing 1: Everyone Needs an Editor

January 12, 2016 by Andy Le Peau

Jim Sire, my predecessor at IVP as editorial director, loved to tell the story of a book review he had drafted. He showed it to Paul to look over before he sent it off to a journal. Paul told him, “Here you say the book has merit but wasn’t evocative enough. What you actually write, …

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Take Note

March 24, 2015 by Andy Le Peau

What to do with footnotes has been a problem since Gutenberg. To some they are an aggravation on par with elevator music and cable company service. To others they are the glory of the published word. For those who want to be able to follow an author’s sources, and for authors who want to make …

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Giving Advice to Writers

February 15, 2011 by Andy Le Peau

It’s always a delicate matter—this business of editors giving advice to writers. These things must be handled with great diplomacy so as not to ruffle the authorial ego. I give you an example to emulate.

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Why I Almost Didn’t Get Hired

December 23, 2008 by Andy Le Peau

I interviewed for an opening in the editorial department at InterVarsity Press over thirty years ago. My prospective boss, Jim Sire, was sick and couldn’t make it to work that day. So I interviewed instead with the publisher, Jim Nyquist, and Linda Doll, who was the only other employee in the editorial department at that …

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So You Want to Be a Book Editor?

October 27, 2008 by Andy Le Peau

Every so often we at IVP get asked what it takes, or how one prepares, to be an editor. The question came regularly enough that my predecessor at IVP, Jim Sire, jotted down some thoughts which we have since been passing on to folks for over two decades. His comments are just as relevant now …

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Great Production

May 7, 2008 by Andy Le Peau

“Design, production, and manufacturing, in many publishing houses, are not considered as glamorous as editorial or sales, and may be looked upon a secondary. They should be viewed as quite the reverse,” says publishing guru Tom Woll (p. 161). Why? Well, how many times have design and production saved editorial’s and marketing’s behind when an …

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The Joys of Coauthoring

April 30, 2008 by Andy Le Peau

One colleague said I seemed to be pretty negative about coauthoring when I wrote about that here recently. Since I have coauthored five books myself, I suppose one could suppose a certain autobiographical slant to my comments. That has not been the case. I coauthored three Bible study guides with my wife, another with my …

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The Myths of Coauthoring

April 23, 2008 by Andy Le Peau

It’s a myth that coauthoring is easier than single authoring. What every editor knows and few authors know is the myth of coauthoring. The myth stated simply is: Coauthoring is better, easier, quicker and less work than single authoring a book. The myth is false on almost all counts. Yet it persists. Why?

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