Sandra Nomoto, Author at Sandra Nomoto

How book editors can work toward social change

With great power (over words) comes great responsibility. Full disclosure: This post is inspired by an article by Kavita Das published in Poets&Writers. Last year when I took a course on copyediting with the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS), there was one chapter...

3 Things a Book Formatter Does

by Sandra Nomoto | Books

You’re in the majority if you don’t know WTF a book formatter does. When I started taking courses in book editing last year, I didn’t know what formatting was, and stumbled into it by total accident! When my uncle asked me to copyedit his...

How Vegan Businesses Can Get More Content in Less Work

by Sandra Nomoto | Business & Marketing

The goal should be MORE content with less! My intuition plays a huge role in my life and business. As I came to my one-year mark as The Content Doctor in December 2020, it became crystal clear to me that there is a problem we have in the world of content marketing:...

5 Things a Good Book Editor Does

by Sandra Nomoto | Books

Is your book editor doing these things? If you’re lucky to have gotten a book deal from a publishing house, this blog will seem pretty irrelevant to you, but since the era of self-publishing, working with traditional publishers is less common (unless...

Vegan Book Editors

by Sandra Nomoto | Books, Business & Marketing

Because every good vegan author needs a good vegan editor! After the Vegan Business 2.0 blog I published a few weeks back, I realized that there needs to be a directory for authors who want to work with a book editor who is vegan. There are a few vegan book publishers...