Academics might find it hard to see the flaws in their work, but to be a writer is to be edited – embrace it. Laura Portwood-Stacer outlines the importance of developmental editing For a scholarly ...

If you’re working on a scholarly book manuscript, you will need, at some point, to reach out to an editor. That may mean pitching your project at a conference or submitting a proposal “over the ...

I just handed in the first draft of my third book, Leading with ADHD. I had the same developmental editor on my first book and again on my third, Laura. We have worked closely together in a highly ...

Laura Portwood-Stacer is a developmental editor, author and founder of Manuscipt Works. Her books include Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Authors (Princeton ...