Nora Cohen – Editor

Nora is the owner of a children’s book editing business and is a former Managing Editor and Senior Editor of children’s books at G.P. Putnam’s Sons in New York, where she edited children's books for all ages, focusing most directly on the picture book and young reader genres. As Managing Editor, she worked closely with the art department and production department to ensure the smooth passage of each book from manuscript to eventual printed, bound, and published book. She has taught children’s book writing courses and is the author of "An Easter Alphabet" (Putnam, under the pseudonym, Nora Tarlow) and "From Apple to Zipper" (Simon & Schuster). She edits and finesses all age-levels and genres of children's book manuscripts, from picture books to middle grade chapter books to young adult teen novels. In her editing work for each writer, she edits and finesses the manuscript's narrative flow, characterizations, structure, pacing, transitions, dialogue, narrative, clarity, syntax, and storyline logic, as well as finessing grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Her comprehensive and detailed edits appear throughout the manuscript to polish and strengthen plot clarity, language usage, and word choices, and she believes strongly in never making change for the sake of change. Her edits are undertaken with warm and respectful adherence to the author's voice, vision, and plot preferences. She also gently recommends to the writer any aspects of the manuscript that might benefit, if needed, from further revising work by the author. When her detailed editing work is completed, the manuscript is ready for the writer to begin the submission process or the publication process.