What's It's Really Like to be a Production Editor

Inside Peek: A new "Day in the Life of ..." account was added to InkwellEditorial.com today.

Wanna know what it's like to be a Production Editor at a children's book publisher? Log on to find out from this insightful account -- from salary to duties, you'll know if this is a fit for you -- or not. Enjoy!

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EXCERPT

What would you call someone who edits, critiques, organizes, maintains, brainstorms, encourages, sits down very little, and on good days, plays with My Little Ponies and watches Ice Age for research? Give up? If you work in publishing, you might call her a production editor – and you would be talking about me.

For the past eight months, I have held the aforementioned title at a smallish publishing company, in the exciting (you might think this is sarcasm, but as much as I can’t believe it myself, it is not) world of children’s books.

It might seem to an outsider that producing kids’ books is an easy task, as a good deal of these of contain little text and simple spot illustration. But as with many things, there’s more to children’s publishing than meets the eye, and it’s my job to make sure that all of these parts run smoothly – with as few mistakes as possible.

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