In a post for Writer’s Digest, Tiffany Yates Martin examines what a professional editor is and isn’t, and why writers should consider using one.
“Back in the glamour days of publishing, becoming an author meant being anointed by one of Manhattan’s handful of venerable old houses, where you’d sit down with rolled sleeves for deep-dive one-on-one sessions with your book editor (preferably Max Perkins) to painstakingly polish the story into shape,” Martin writes.
These days, we can only LOL at that concept. While you may receive comments from the publisher’s “editor,” your work needs to be as close to its final, vetted, and polished form as possible before it hits their desk.
