EP152: Editing Masterclass with Emad Akhtar and Caroline Hulse

The highlights from our YouTube Live Show for our Patreon supporters. We talk through the editorial process with author Caroline Hulse and her editor Emad Akhtar, looking at specific pages and extracts from her book, The Adults. You can read along with the edit notes by downloading the PDFs in the show notes.

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PODCAST

In this episode you will discover…

The changes that a novel goes through during the edit
What an editor is looking for when they first edit a book
How to work with track changes and editorial notes

There are three PDF documents that you can download and read along:

Here are some of the links we talked about in the show…

Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bestsellerexperiment
Support Jenni Desvaux’s book The Very Last Monster Book: http://lastmonsters.com
Pre-order The End of Magic: https://unbound.com/books/end-of-magic/
Back to Reality: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality/
Scrivener: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/
The Damonza Cover Competition: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/cover/
Damonza (10% off all packages with code bestsellerxp): https://damonza.com/bestsellerxp/
Caroline Hulse’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/carolinehulse1
Our previous Live Show with Emad: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/ep101-live-show-with-emad-akhtar/

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