Editors, Do You Need This Book?

Jeff Herman’s Guide to Book Publishers, Editors, and Literary Agents is a fairly tempting volume to many–after all, the freelance writer with a book idea needs some place to hawk that concept, right?

But perhaps that interpretation of what this book can be used for is too inside-the-box.

What about the editor who needs a career change? Someone looking for a way to find new opportunities with or without the benefit of the freelance job boards or for-editors websites might do well to consider a book like this as a glorified phone book.

Want to move into the publishing world? Looking for new addresses to send those resumes to? So many people get wrapped up in the target audience for books like these that it never occurs to them to buy one to use when targeting companies for your resume and cover letter.

There’s more than one way to interpret a resource like this. Take a creative look at your bookstore shelves and ask yourself if a new editor job tool is hiding in plain sight.