Book Editor Interview

If you love books, a book editor would be a perfect job. A book editor reads the unpublished drafts to see if the book is good enough to be published and sold in stores. When you´re a book editor you have to have amazing grammar and patience. I interviewed a book editor called Paul Jonson and I was pretty surprised by what he told me about his job and about how he started working. I had an interview with Paul Johnson on July 12th of 2016, and I asked him how he started and he said “I started by accident. Like everyone who studies journalism, I wanted to win a Pulitzer for investigative journalism, but I had to pay my bills so I took a job as a book editor.” A lot of people start of thinking that when they study journalism they are going to become famous and rich, but then they find out that it´s not that easy and take jobs on the side that end up being their long

This is a topic I knew about before I started working. I love how I have the ability, from my perspective, to edit in a way that if I am able to understand it, the reader who is usually a novice, will also.” When a book editor is going to take a job they have to think about what they like and what their talents are and what would be a good book to edit based on what they know. Book editors don´t read always the same genre of books. I asked Johnson if he reads books and what type of books does he read. He answered “Of course! I read anything that had nothing to do with the automotive industry when I have some spare time. It´s always nice to change things up a little.” Also, not all book editors stay book editors their whole lives. Some just take these jobs to help them live and have some income and while they do that job they pursue their real dream. Johnson said in 10 years he plans to be working for the New York Times as a investigative journalist and he plans to win a Pulitzer. A book editor takes time and patience and something you get to work with people who aren´t good to work with, but