My Editor and Me or Should That Be Me and My Editor?
With Vanessa Radnidge & Catherine Therese
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About this session
Catherine Therese, the author of Things She Would Have Said Herself, tells editor Vanessa Radnidge, Head of Nonfiction & Literary at Hachette Australia, what she would say now.
About this series
Many an editor has described herself – and yes, it is usually a ’her’ – as a handmaiden to the creativity of the author. What does an author want from an editor? Should an editor be there to tell the truth, to act as a one-person cheer squad or as an intelligent interlocutor? And what is the 21st century equivalent of the editor’s blue pencil? Some of our finest editors talk with their bestselling authors about the editorial process.