Video: Rebecca Lee on ‘How Words Get Good’

Rebecca Lee is the author of author of How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book. She's also an editorial manager at Penguin Random House, with twenty years of experience managing hundreds of high profile books from delivery of manuscript to finished copies, signing off millions of words as fit to go to print with only the occasional regret.

This interview is from the ‘So You Want To Be A Writer’ podcast by the Australian Writers’ Centre, where you’ll find world-class writing courses. You can learn online with your own tutor, and join a wonderfully supportive writing community.

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