editing Archives

Create compelling book descriptions, build your author platform, and leverage online and offline marketing tactics for your first book.

Heart from book series editors and authors about how to pitch effectively to series editors, and leverage series affiliation for visibility.

Learn how to decode reviewer comments, respond strategically to critiques, and revise effectively for your first book.

Learn to work with editorial team, navigate feedback, and manage timelines when publishing your book with a university press

Come on by the Ideas on Fire booth and check out our guide for the 2025 ACES Society for Editing VCon conference!

How authors can create legible interdisciplinary texts that resonate with varied readers across fields, backgrounds, and communities.

Learn how to best navigate copyedits on your manuscript and how to create the final draft you’ll send to the publisher or journal.

How authors can respond to developmental edits and improve their scholarly manuscripts for publication.

Come on by the Ideas on Fire booth and check out our guide for the 2024 ACES Society for Editing VCon conference!

Next steps for authors after receiving a scholarly book contract, including manuscript preparation and marketing.

How interdisciplinary scholars can best budget for editing and indexing on their books and journal articles.

Cathy Hannabach’s keynote address on how building critical generosity into editorial practice is a key way we build the worlds we want to inhabit.

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