The forest for the trees : an editor's advice to writers /
Betsy Lerner
- New York ; Riverhead Books : 2001.
- 284 pages : 21 cm .
In her many years working for major New York publishing houses, Lerner has learned again and again that writers don't know what editors do with manuscripts. This informal insider's guide to nursing your book to publication is a quirky literary equivalent to the classic "How a Bill Becomes a Law". A portable survival school for authors.