Essays from twenty-seven leading book editors: "Honest and unflinching accounts from publishing insiders . . . a valuable primer on the field." — Publishers WeeklyEditing is an invisible art in which the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand the range of roles they inhabit while sh...

Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand the range of roles they inhabit while shepherding a project from concept to publication.In What Editors Do, Peter Ginna gathers essays from twenty-seven leading figures in book publishing about their work. Representing bot...