SELF-PUBLISHING MASTERY TALKS #18: All That You Want to Know about Editing

Helga Schier, a top editor and the Editorial Director of CamCat Books is our expert guest in this episode. She studied German, English and American Literature and Linguistics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, at New York University and at the University of Tübingen, where she graduated with a PhD in Literature. She has been in publishing for over 25 years and, in the years prior to her freelance work, she was Executive Editor at Random House, Inc. (Crown Publishers).

Helga answered the burning questions authors have about editing:
- What type of editing I need?
- When do I need an editor?
- How do I pick an editor?
- Do I need to hire an editor to get a publisher?
- What are publishers looking for in a manuscript?
- The pros and cons of signing a contract with a small publisher.

And many more!

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[helgaschier]

Thanks so much for having me on your show, Andreea. I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation.