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Acquisitions editors, developmental editors, copy editors... How many different kinds of editors are there? What do they even do? And what are they looking for in a project?

On this episode I chat with Alison Kalett, Editorial Director at Princeton University Press, where she supports a team of six science editors and acquires books in biology. She's been their science editor since 2007, and prior to this, she was editor for American History at Cornell University Press. 

In this episode, Alison gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the world of scholarly publishing. As a non-scientist who acquires science books, she lends a useful and unique perspective that will help all scholars figure out the academic publishing world.

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