Dr. Syntax
Scattered Observations on Books and Publishing
Thursday, March 27, 2025
The Gun on the Wall and the Footprint under the Window: Setups and Payoffs in Fiction
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A concept that seems not always well understood by fiction writers, though it is regularly discussed in screenwriting, is that of setups and...
Saturday, July 3, 2021
Whose Business Model Is Broken Anyway?
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It's been some time since your friend the Doctor has posted here--preoccupied as he has been with sorting out the syntax of authors far ...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
What Editors Do Goes on the Road--and on the Air! A Conversation on BookTV, or Maybe in Your Neighborhood
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With my book What Editors Do now actually available to buy, I've had the pleasure of appearing in bookstores to talk about it, so far i...
Thursday, June 1, 2017
BookExpo Snapshots: Editors’-Eye-Views of the Publishing Industry, mid-2017
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BookExpo, the annual booksellers and publishers convention, has traditionally been the moment for media and book-business observers to take...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
I Wrote the Book on Editing. (I Had Help.)
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This blog has gone unrefreshed for far too long now, but your correspondent has not been idle. For much of the past couple of years I have b...
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