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Sep 2020
36m 1s

How an Editor Acquires a Manuscript

Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra
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Author and host, Bianca Marais, takes you behind the scenes of publishing as she chats with editor, Kerri Kolen, about how editors acquire manuscripts; what the acquisition process looks like; how interminable the wait for news is; as well as how advances are calculated, how royalties work and Audible's opportunities that are available to authors.

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