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![]() ![]() A book is an author’s baby, and I make sure to keep that at the fore of all my work. Now that you have published three novels of your own, what has changed about the way you work as an editor?Īs an editor I always try to be highly sensitive to the authors’ feelings and needs, and above all to their sense of a book’s integrity. I’m not sure whether that stems from the ingrained habit of poring over details like this in my day job, or whether it’s just my personality! As a writer, I tend to agonize over the most minute details – I can scrutinize a comma for hours. I just wanted to do my best to make the process as smooth as I could. I wanted to be as professional as possible and wanted to deliver the cleanest manuscript I could. I think I was an associate editor, assisting two more senior editors, when my first novel sold to Viking. How did your day job prepare you for being on the other end of a project for the first time? You were an editor before you were a published author. ![]() Lisa writes for young readers in both prose and verse, and has generously offered to share her wisdom on writing and publishing. ![]() Today I’m excited to share an interview with the talented Lisa Ann Sandell, executive editor at Scholastic Press and author of The Weight of the Sky, Song of the Sparrow, A Map of the Known World, and contributor to the collection, 21 Proms. ![]()
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