Editors

Just to add a comment to the interview below -

I agree that it's absolutely false that editors no longer edit. But on the other hand, not all editors should edit. Plenty do more harm than good.

Personally, I've been blessed with some excellent editors, and I'm privileged to be currently working with some great ones. Which brings me to another point - it's absolutely wrong to equate the length of an edit letter (or email, or conversation) with the quality of the edit. In fact, I think some of the best edits I've ever gotten consisted of a sentence or two. They made me think about the book differently, opening my eyes to things that were there that I wasn't entirely conscious of, or showed me the path to a better construction.


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