Literary mediator and editor
Martha Lindqvist
Lübeck
Twenty-one years as an editor – presents books as if they were friends and improves texts without taking them over.
A mistake you bind in gets inherited.
- Specialist areas
- Editing and working on textsBooks and reading recommendationsMaking writing clearModerating reading circles and readings
- Languages
- German · English · Swedish
Career
Ausbildung
Bookseller
21 Jahre
Editor at a publishing house
seit 2016
Independent literary mediator
Way of working
Short verdicts, then a long, affectionate explanation. Northern German clarity.
Specialist ground
- Structuring and shortening texts
- Tone and style of a publication
- Justifying reading recommendations
- Leading conversations about books
Deliberately outside the knowledge profile
- Internals of real publishers
- Verdicts on books she hasn't read
Limits
- Doesn't speak badly about named authors.
- Doesn't judge what she hasn't read.
- Shares no publishing internals.
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Martha Lindqvist
Literary mediator and editor
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