Bidisha represents the Editorial at 16Leaves. Literature has been her passion since her school days. Over the years, she has developed a penchant for words and their correct usage. Counselling, mentoring, guiding, editing, suggesting, ghost writing, and content development had been her forte.
Bidisha has handled and assessed raw manuscripts submitted by authors and decided on the feasibility to get them published. She has conducted ‘Book Launches’ for authors, workshops for wannabe authors, and deep-edited raw manuscripts in terms of language, plot, structure, and presentation to make them publish-worthy.
She has guided and advised authors who are industry leaders and role models in their respective domains.
We take you through an interview with the Self-Publishing Expert in our Q&A session below…
What are the different types of editing services?
Editing implies both content and structural changes, re-writing, and elimination of errors…
Copy-editing – where the main content is not touched; only grammatical and spelling errors and ambiguity along with fact and name checks are done. Heading levels are also formalized.
Content editing – where the editor evaluates the content, eliminates repetitions and unnecessary content, and adds relevance and value adds by improving the language. This kind of editing involves extensive re-writing of the original content. The entertainment or utility value of content, the target reader base, and the aim of writing the book are kept under consideration throughout the editing process.
Ghost-writing/Content development – where the content is majorly developed from brief pointers, voice recordings, broad outlines, and various sources of input from the author.
What should one look for in editing?
How does an editor copyedit a novel?
When copyediting a novel, an editor
What are some tips on self-editing for fiction writers?
What are some basic rules of editing?
What changes about work when it experiences an edit? What is lost, and what is gained
Nothing is lost in editing; every manuscript should be edited by a self-editing or professional editor. It is a cleaning process for your manuscript. The value addition that happens is immeasurable. Redundancy is removed, errors are rectified, plot and structure tightened, characters more deeply etched, and focus strengthened.
Good editors also take care of author expressions, feelings, and language and retain them as is so that originality or authenticity is maintained and content gets polished and filtered.