Editors on editing: what writers need to know about what editors do

What is an editor? / Alan D. Williams

The evolution of the American editor / Marc Aronson

An open letter to a would-be editor / M. Lincoln Schuster

Are editors necessary? (revised for this edition) and On the decline of Western literature / Richard Curtis

Lunch with a favorite agent / John F. Thornton

Breaking faith : a publishing parable / Maxwell Gherkin

Mistah Perkins, he dead : publishing today (with a postscript for this edition) / Gerald Howard

Doing good, and doing it right : the ethical and moral dimensions of editing / James O'Shea Wade

How books are chosen :

what goes into making an editorial decision / Richard Marek

What editors look for in a query letter, proposal, and manuscript / Jane von Mehren

The editor and the author at the writers' conference : why they go, what they do / Michael Seidman

The editor as negotiator / Martha K. Levin

Editing for the Christian marketplace / Janet Hoover Thoma

Editing books for the Jewish market : a commitment to community / Bonny V. Fetterman

Developmental editing : a creative collaboration / Paul D. McCarthy

The copy editor and the author / Gypsy da Silva

Line editing : drawing out the best book possible / Maron L. Waxman

Line editing : the art of the reasonable suggestion / John K. Paine

The role of the editorial assistant / Casey Fuetsch

Working with a free-lance editor or book doctor / Gerald (Jerry) Gross

Editing true crime / Charles Spicer

Editing crime fiction / Ruth Cavin

The pleasures and perils of editing mass-market paperbacks / Mel Parker

Editing trade paperbacks in middle age : theirs and mine / Mark Alan Gompertz

Editing nonfiction : the question of "political correctness" / Wendy M. Wolf

Editing fiction : the question of "political

correctness" / Michael Denneny

Editing scholars in three modes for three audiences / Jane Isay

Editing for a small press : publishing the way it used to be / Scott Walker

Editing fiction as an act of love / Faith Sale

On editing nonfiction : multiple majors in a university of subjects / Fredrica S. Friedman

Editing the science-fiction and fantasy novel : the importance of calling everyone Fred / John W. Silbersack

Editing children's books / Phyllis J. Fogelman

Editing reference books / Linda Halvorson Morse

The editor of lives / Peter Davison

Editing popular psychology and self-help books / Toni Burbank

Editing the romance novel / Linda Marrow

Editing male-oriented escapist fiction / Greg Tobin.