Author Archive: Karin Cox
Karin Cox is a professional book editor who has worked for traditional publishing companies in the United Kingdom and Australia for more than 14 years. Since 2007, she has been the Inhouse Author for Steve Parish Publishing in Australia, writing fiction and social history books for children, and travel, natural history and coffee table books for adults. Karin has won several awards, including two Whitley Commendation Awards for natural history writing in 2010.
Because she loves helping authors reach their potential, she also freelances in her spare time when not writing her own short stories, fiction or poetry. Her shorts and poetry have been published in several anthologies worldwide and she is currently seeking an agent for a young adult fantasy novel. With an adorable baby daughter, a house on Brisbane's sunny bayside, and a loving partner, if she could only find time to finish four more works in progress all of her dreams would come true!
Visit her website www.editorandauthor.com, her blog http://imwritewithyou.blogspot.com/ or follow her on twitter @Authorandeditor.
Late Nights and Inky Fingers: the Daily Life of a Book Editor
Whenever someone asks that most common of “small talk” questions: “What do you do?” and I answer, “I’m a book editor,” I almost always find myself having to correct the notion that editing is a glamorous job. Fascinating—yes; Absorbing—certainly. But glamorous—rarely (unless one happens to be a fashion magazine editor in New York). Most of […]
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