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Editors have long been publishing’s hidden handmaidens – what might we gain if we acknowledged their role?
By Alice Grundy, Australian National University Editors are almost always unseen and unheard – until something goes wrong. That might be a relatively minor mistake, such as a typo – as in a cookbook that mistakenly listed “people” instead of “pepper” in a...
Friday essay: we are the voice – why we need more Indigenous editors
By Sandra Phillips, The University of Queensland Eddie Koiki Mabo and others made the High Court of Australia recognise in 1992 that terra nullius – nobody’s land – was a fiction. It is taking us longer to kill off its lesser-known cousin, vox nullius. Vox...
How editors can use Bookstagram to stay up to date on trends
By young adult fiction editor Poppy Solomon, of Poppy’s Pages (previously All Write) Young adult fiction editor Poppy Solomon shares how book editors can gain the latest commercial insights on readers’ likes, dislikes and favourite tropes and emerging...