Books Archives - Sandra Nomoto

How to make a vegan book, from editing to formatting, design, publishing, and marketing

Just because you are vegan doesn’t mean your book will be! Some of this will be a repeat of what I’ve said in previous blogs, but if you’re new here and are vegan and wondering how to publish a vegan book, welcome! 1. Decide if you’ll...

3 mistakes I made in my last book editing project

by Sandra Nomoto | Books, Self-Development

A perfect vegan book editor doesn’t exist. I’m so grateful I learned how to edit books and copyedited four books last year, pro-bono or at a lower rate than what I’m charging now. I felt confident going into my FIRST book editing and formatting...

How book editors can work toward social change

by Sandra Nomoto | Books, Social good

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...