• On Writing,  publishing

    The New World of Publishing: Editing and Proofing

    Just for fun and giggles and to help kill a few myths, I figured I would take a few areas of publishing and compare them across, from indie to traditional. The differences, the beliefs, how things are actually done. I’ll do this with cover design, with blurb writing, and other areas that are common between the two forms of publishing. One area per short post. But first off, let me talk about editing and proofing. One of the great new myths is that traditionally-published books are cleaner and better proofed than indie-published books. Traditional publishers use this myth as a selling point to keep writers mailing them books. Well, maybe…