Books Archives - 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...

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...

What my proofreading and editing process is like

by Sandra Nomoto | Books

Because you need backup for when you f*ckup. I said it two years ago, and I’ll say it forever: Editing is my favourite thing to do in the world. (As a profession…so if I was wealthy enough that I didn’t have to work, I’d still be doing this.)...

What my ghostwriting process is like

by Sandra Nomoto | Books, Business & Marketing

Or, how I make my clients sound awesome In the latter part of 2020, I launched some new services for authors, but I thought I’d elaborate a little on how my ghostwriting process works. I haven’t yet done this for an author, but I’ve got a lot of...