Glossary
We’ve curated a glossary of terms regarding all things writing and publishing related. From commonly-used terms to abbreviations, our glossary will guide writers and people starting out in publishing, to cut through the jargon and gain a better understanding.
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Territory
Areas of the world where the publisher has the right to publish or license other overseas publishers to publish through foreign rights deals.
Trade discount
A reduction in price given to a customer in the same trade as the seller - for example, a publisher to another publisher or a publisher to a bookseller.
Trade paperback
A paperback that is of a higher production quality and a larger size than a mass market paperback edition.
Transferred
When an adjectival word or phrase is attached to a noun which epithet it doesn’t strictly describe (thus transferred), for example ‘sleepless nights’.
A more extensive list of literary terms, with quotations from fiction and non-fiction sources showing the terms in use, is included in The Right Word: A Writer’s Toolkit of Grammar, Vocabulary and Literary Terms (Bloomsbury 2021)
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Transitive verb
Verb that can take a direct object, such as bash, give, peel and whip.
A more extensive list of grammatical terms is included in The Right Word: A Writer’s Toolkit of Grammar, Vocabulary and Literary Terms (Bloomsbury 2021)
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