Rebecca Weston

Dear Friends, Come find me in this other place (address in photo). See you there! Rebecca

#RWLWritingTip Stop asking yourself what other people want to read and start asking what you want to. What will make you excited to sit in front of the computer every day? Write the story you want to read. The story you need to exist. #bookeditor #freelanceeditor #writingtips

Thanks to those who crafted and signed. I’m with you. #writingcommunity #books

Outdoor editing is the best editing! Sometimes, after nearly two decades as a #bookeditor, I still can’t believe that I get to make a living by reading stories all day long. #freelanceeditor #dreamjob #summer

#RWLWritingTip Say yes to bad ideas. Stop thinking of your ideas as bad. Stop thinking about your ideas. Stop thinking about thinking. Just write it all down. #writingtips #bookeditor #freelanceeditor

#RWLWritingTip Don’t let yourself be held back by the seeds of the story you thought you were writing. If something else more exciting starts to bloom in its place, give it room to grow. #writingtips #bookeditor #freelanceeditor

A deliciously quite lunch with my friend Vladimir at Miriam UWS. #bookeditor #nyc #nabokov

Highlights from the #USBookShow in #NYC: 1. Meeting my dear friends @juliescheina & @sangeeta_editor 2. Picnicking w/publishing friends old & new 3. CEO panel: Karp (@simonschuster), Shelley (@HachetteUK, @HachetteUS), Segura (@PublishersWkly) 4. Brunch w/inimitable @johnmcusick

It never gets old, seeing a book that I had a small part in bringing into the world, on a shelf or in a kid’s hands. Here is the fabulous #TheLegendaryMoSeto by @AYChanWrites, in the wild and in good company, at @SchulerBooks. #kidlit #middlegradebooks #bookeditor #indiebookstore

NYC, I am coming back to you! Publishing friends, I’ll be in town 6/2-6/4 for the Book Fair. Let me know if you’ll be around—I’d love to see you! ❤️🗽Photo credit: me, circa 2011, the one time in nearly ten years I bothered to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. #nyc #bookeditor

#RWLWritingTip Having trouble getting into a writing groove? Set aside the same time every day. Some days you’ll write, some days you’ll stare lifelessly out the window. But the more consistently you show up, the more consistently the writing will flow. #writingtip #bookeditor

As a developmental #bookeditor, my main job is to recognize a writer’s vision, find what is at the heart of the story, and draw it out. I am fueled by the desire to help others’ labors of love become fully realized. #freelanceeditor #amediting

What greater pleasure is there than walking amongst shelves filled with stories, selecting one or twenty, and returning home to curl up and read? Thank you, @LiteratiBkstore, West Side Book Shop, @ShopBooksweet, & @SchulerBooks. #IndependentBookstoreDay #indiebookstore #shoplocal

So excited for this beautiful story to have its beautiful cover! One step closer to this being out in the world, @contactrebecca! 💙🥂#coverreveal #kidlit

THE MONA LISA VANISHES by Nicholas Day is an engrossing work of #middlegrade nonfiction that reads like fiction, as we discover the details of the real-life theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Exciting, mysterious, and fun for kids & adults alike. #bookeditor #bookrec #kidlit

#RWLWritingTip Sit in the beauty around you and really see it. Describe it in a way that feels more true than accurate. #bookeditor #writingtips #freelanceeditor

#RWLWritingTip Want to show why two characters are right for each other? Make them intriguing & irresistible. If readers can’t help falling for your characters, they won’t wonder why the characters are falling for each other. P.S. Witty banter never hurts.#writingtips #bookeditor

I had so much fun at Rose’s school, where I got to bring in a book to read aloud. I picked a special one—the first NATE THE GREAT—and the kids loved it. Fun fact: Mama wrote the back cover copy during her @randomhousekids days! @RHCBEducators #bookeditor #readingwithkids #kidlit

I enjoyed the gentle storytelling in THE WILD ROBOT by @itspeterbrown as well as the subtle themes of nature and machines, wilderness and civilization, community and solitude, and empathy. I am so glad that I finally read this much-loved story. #bookeditor #kidlit

#RWLWritingTip Use dialogue, not just to impart information, but to develop characters and relationships. How a person speaks says a lot about that character, and the way in which two people interact can reveal much about their relationship. #bookeditor #writingtips #showdonttell

Portrait of a #bookeditor who has just finished a big edit and is heading into a snowy weekend with her two little bookworms. #freelanceeditor #weekendvibes