Don McNair

Don McNair is the author of “Editor-Proof Your Writing: 21 Steps to the Clear Prose Publishers and Agents Crave.” Realizing most writers don’t know what to change when editing, he wrote the book to help them discover what’s wrong first, then tell them how to fix it. He believes using most books on self-editing is like using geography books to get from Point A to Point B. His, however, works like a GPS.

McNair, a prolific author, has written four published non-fiction "how-to" books, two young-adult novels, and four romance novels, including one co-authored. He now concentrates on editing novels for others (see http://DonMcNair.com ).

McNair spent his working life editing magazines (11 years), producing public relations materials for the Burson-Marsteller international PR firm (6 years), and heading his own marketing communications firm, McNair Marketing Communications (21 years). His creativity has won him three Golden Trumpets for best industrial relations programs from the Publicity Club of Chicago, a certificate of merit award for a quarterly magazine he wrote and produced, and the Public Relations Society of America's Silver Anvil. The latter is comparable to the Emmy and Oscar in other industries.