Comments on: Only Your Hairdresser Knows For Sure — Survey #5

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how much does a NBA ref earn — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:25:11 +0000

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By: August

August — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:16:49 +0000

That happened to me, too, with an early book. I didn’t realize that editors actually edited for a quite some time.

One good tip I got was to make sure I actually met every editor in person, even if meant the long slog into NYC. (Of course, -you- actually enjoy traveling, which is wrong on many levels.)

By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:14:58 +0000

Would love to read survey responses to the question: “What does the word publishable actually mean?”

By: Amy MacGregor

Amy MacGregor — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:56:05 +0000

Several different people have to be allowed to do their jobs if a book is to be successful. Authors are not the only ones who get to work on their manuscript. Once the manuscript is turned over to an editor, the editor has to be allowed to do her/his job. Successful authors have great editors. Successful authors have a good relationship with their editors. Good relationships are created in trust and respect. If an author trusts and respects no one but themselves to work on their book, they are not “publishable”.

By: Vivian Swift

Vivian Swift — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:48:49 +0000

SOME people, not me, of course, but SOME people might say that when it comes to EDITORS theirs might as well have been a UNICORN for all the face time she got from them or for all the notes they couldn’t write being hoofed and all. Or so I’ve heard, from some people. Some bitter, whiny, over-looked genius people who are NOT ME.

For some reason, NOT being edited feels worse than being edited, is all I’m saying, or so I’ve heard.

By: Chazz

Chazz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:38:18 +0000

Interesting that as soon as the author sells above 100,000 copies Editor #1 gets to push them around less. Perhaps that simply means that once authors get in touch with their own power they can be more proactive. (There’s a shorter version and a longer version of The Stand which is a perfect example of the maxim: What do you give a 500 pound gorilla? Anything King Kong wants.)

When I was working the other side of the desk I remember edited manuscripts coming across my desk where authors pushed back with retorts like “Stet this chapter”, “This is intrusion, don’t do this!” and finally, “What? Are you an editor or a frustrated writer?”

I admired the authors for that so much.

By: philangelus

philangelus — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:02:56 +0000

I want to work with Editor #3.

By: August

August — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:01:38 +0000

I worked with Phyllis Grann. She took a great deal of care to make very clear that the book was mine, and that I wasn’t to consider her editorial suggestions demands. Unless she found something completely unacceptable, in which case I had to face the fact that my editor, with the best interest of the book in mind, completely hated something. I always found that that motivated me.

Bigshot Editor #3 sounds like a dream. I am in love.