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Belinda Pollard

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Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal

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David Gaughran

Tina Dietz

Sarah Williams

Gabi Logan

Roger Firestien

Scott Baker

Susan RoAne

Anna Runyan

Joel Comm

Adam Croft

Stu Heinecke

John Jantsch

Joanna Penn

Jim Kukral

Lisa Messenger

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Belinda Pollard is a writing coach, accredited book editor, author, blogger, and podcaster with twenty years’ experience and degrees in both journalism and theology. Her clients have earned prestigious awards and become niche bestsellers. Her writing and editing workshops feature at major conferences. She manages a popular blog on her website and publishes crime novels, Bible meditations, and humorous memoir. Her writing prizes include a Varuna Fellowship. Tips:  A developmental editor helps you discover greater potential in your book and presents possible strategies for achieving that potential. Developmental editing is so much more than spell checking. Developmental editors edit from the deeper functions which get right into the content and the structure and the themes of the work. Copy editing and the proofreading provide the final polish. They’re looking at style, consistency, and grammatical correctness. That comes right at the end, just before the book goes to publication. Developmental, for me, is often done quite early in the piece. Sometimes it’s when the writer is just working on those early drafts and ideas and pulling it together. It’s about developing the structure and the themes and the big issues, and often that is provided as a report to the author. Included in the ‘content ending’ part of developmental editing is where you start working within the manuscript itself, and using Microsoft Word’s Track Changes, looking at big issues like the chapter order, deletion of various sections or phrases, or even whole paragraphs, where there’s repetition or wordiness blunting the focus. Developmental editors might suggest ideas like, add a table, a list, or graphics to improve the communication of your themes. Developmental editors look at the big picture. When deciding who to hire as your developmental editor, you do need quite a strong connection at that deeper level. Someone who really gets you. Who gets what you’re doing. Who understands what you’re trying to achieve for your business through the writing of this book, but also you as a person.   Book: Use the Power of Feedback to Write a Better Book (Amazon Paperback/Kindle) Website: Small Blue Dog PublishingThe post #102 – Belinda Pollard on Why Authors Need a Developmental Editor first appeared on Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal.

<p>Belinda Pollard is a writing coach, accredited book editor, author, blogger, and podcaster with twenty years’ experience and degrees in both journalism and theology.</p> <p>Her clients have earned prestigious awards and become niche bestsellers.</p> <p>Her writing and editing workshops feature at major conferences. She manages a popular blog on her website and publishes crime novels, Bible meditations, and humorous memoir.</p> <p>Her writing prizes include a Varuna Fellowship.</p> <p><strong>Tips:</strong></p> <ul> <li>A developmental editor helps you discover greater potential in your book and presents possible strategies for achieving that potential.</li> <li>Developmental editing is so much more than spell checking. Developmental editors edit from the deeper functions which get right into the content and the structure and the themes of the work.</li> <li>Copy editing and the proofreading provide the final polish. They’re looking at style, consistency, and grammatical correctness. That comes right at the end, just before the book goes to publication.</li> <li>Developmental, for me, is often done quite early in the piece. Sometimes it’s when the writer is just working on those early drafts and ideas and pulling it together. It’s about developing the structure and the themes and the big issues, and often that is provided as a report to the author.</li> <li>Included in the ‘content ending’ part of developmental editing is where you start working within the manuscript itself, and using Microsoft Word’s Track Changes, looking at big issues like the chapter order, deletion of various sections or phrases, or even whole paragraphs, where there’s repetition or wordiness blunting the focus.</li> <li>Developmental editors might suggest ideas like, add a table, a list, or graphics to improve the communication of your themes.</li> <li>Developmental editors look at the big picture.</li> <li>When deciding who to hire as your developmental editor, you do need quite a strong connection at that deeper level. Someone who really gets you. Who gets what you’re doing. Who understands what you’re trying to achieve for your business through the writing of this book, but also you as a person.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://amzn.to/3wMdcNI" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"></a></p> <h3>Book: <a href="https://amzn.to/3wMdcNI" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Use the Power of Feedback to Write a Better Book (Amazon Paperback/Kindle)</a></h3> <h3>Website: <a href="https://www.SmallBlueDog.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Small Blue Dog Publishing</a></h3><p>The post <a href="https://www.topbusinessleaders.com/belinda-pollard-why-authors-need-a-developmental-editor/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#102 – Belinda Pollard on Why Authors Need a Developmental Editor</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.topbusinessleaders.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Write Your Book in a Flash Podcast with Dan Janal</a>.</p>

#102 – Belinda Pollard on Why Authors Need a Developmental Editor

‘You never finish writing a book, you just stop,’ is a truism for most writers. Then comes the hard question, should you self publish or go the traditional route? The trouble is, there are more than a few myths still to be dispelled around the subject of Indie versus traditional publishing, and it’s a coversation worth having if you have a book to send out into the world. Belinda Pollard – publisher, editor and author – knows what it takes to write and launch a book because it’s her job to make our books the best they can be. Belinda has a passion for self publishing and is meticulous about making books, hers or ours, perfect. As a developmental and structual editor, and CEO of Small Blue Dog Publishing, she knows what she’s talking about. She works with both beginning and established writers, and has advice for both. From how to publish, to beta readers and distribution, Belinda has helped more than a few authors through the maze that is publishing in the twenty-first century. You can find out more about Belinda, her books, and her business here.

<p>‘You never finish writing a book, you just stop,’ is a truism for most writers. Then comes the hard question, should you self publish or go the traditional route? The trouble is, there are more than a few myths still to be dispelled around the subject of Indie versus traditional publishing, and it’s a coversation worth having if you have a book to send out into the world. Belinda Pollard – publisher, editor and author – knows what it takes to write and launch a book because it’s her job to make our books the best they can be. Belinda has a passion for self publishing and is meticulous about making books, hers or ours, perfect. As a developmental and structual editor, and CEO of Small Blue Dog Publishing, she knows what she’s talking about. She works with both beginning and established writers, and has advice for both. From how to publish, to beta readers and distribution, Belinda has helped more than a few authors through the maze that is publishing in the twenty-first century. You can find out more about Belinda, her books, and her business here.</p>

#79 Five Publishing Myths Debunked, with Belinda Pollard