Great news: your manuscript has been signed with a publisher! Now comes the work of turning a manuscript into a book. Susan Hill Newton, managing editor at University of Iowa Press, will walk you through the steps of working with your editor(s) as you learn to let go and let the business of publishing take the lead. Offering advice on and insight into how authors benefit by learning to trust the process, Susan will speak to the author–editor relationship, the editorial process, the crossover work with marketing, and the fusion of author, publisher, bookseller/buyer, and reader.

Susan Hill Newton has worked in all realms of book editing, serving both trade and academic publishers and nonprofits. Her breadth of experience ranges from acquisitions to book development, line editing to program direction, as well as the writing and editing of marketing collateral. She presently sits as the managing editor at University of Iowa Press, where she oversees the editorial program of roughly thirty books per year. Susan lived in Denver, Colorado, for more than twenty years before making the move to Iowa City with her husband and two daughters.