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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 2:16

Need help/advice please about interviewing editors/authors

It's not me talking author. So if you guys can help me throw some questions, some thoughts, I would greatly, greatly, greatly appreciate it. And thank you so much

This Friday I’m going to talk to a couple of editors and would like some pointers, suggestions, great questions to ask. @rachel @NamelessJournal

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Ramya V
@Ramya · 0:51

Dealing with creative differences with the author?

Hey, Shahnaz, so great to hear about your upcoming podcast with Editors really looking forward to listening to it. So one thing I've always wanted to ask of an editor is this how do they deal with creative differences that sometimes arise with the author on account of some editing calls that they've made on the manuscript?
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Ramya V
@Ramya · 1:02

What about the boring bits of editing?

And of course, to add to it, you have multiple proof reading sessions and reviewing sentence constructs and all of that. So these are the technical and more mundane aspects of editing. So how do they sustain or keep up their interest while they are at it for hours? Ours. So I'm really curious
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:44

Editors and their unique stories

Hey, Shannon, this is really exciting. I also am really looking forward to listening to this episode. So something that I always think is really interesting with Editors. And I guess technically, as an editor myself in various kinds of publishing over the years is all of us tend to have our quirks and the things that we are obsessive about or obsessed with, whether it's something as small as how you feel about the Oxford
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 3:30

@NamelessJournal @rachel

Henry Holt had its own editor, and he did this, and he did this, and he did a marvelous job, and they're like, oh, my gosh. Have you seen the author list of these books? We're not going to be, like, telling this famous author, by the way, fix that sentence. There's no way because, yeah, like, it's several short stories by different, really well known authors
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:36
And I'm actually really curious if any surprising questions came out of it for you, since in some ways, you couldn't be as prepared or maybe planned as you normally would be, so did anything surprising come of that
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 1:25

Short story vs novel @rachel

Actually, Rachel, yes. There was one surprising question that came from me, and it wasn't so much a surprising question. It was just me, you know, just pulling its straws thinking of a question, and it just came out and I was thinking, maybe this is a dumb question. But then when the answer came out is when I realized it's freaking brilliant. I was like, this is a freaking brilliant question. I never even considered it
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Ramya V
@Ramya · 0:38
Even I think that was an absolutely brilliant question, Shana's, because I've tried my hand at both writing a shot as well as working on my manuscript. And I tell you, they are worlds apart. The approach that you take the planning that you do, they're completely different. So I think it's a brilliant question. And I'm sure you've got some really wonderful answers from your guests. And I really look forward to this episode of yours coming out
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 2:37

@NamelessJournal

Or what am I going to do? And then in retrospect, you look at it and you're like, I like, it. Okay. One of those. So yeah, it's good. All right. Well, I am still working on my novel. Like I said, 66,000 words. We'll see where I go. I told Rachel that I call it my first half a draft. I don't even call it my first draft
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