Editormum's Grammar Guru: What Does an Editor Do?

Monday, November 28, 2005

What Does an Editor Do?

I'm amazed at the number of first-time writers who think that they can call me up, send me their manuscript (MS), and let me go through it once --- then send it off to McGraw-Hill, Penguin, or Scholastic and have the next Harry Potter on their hands. It just doesn't work that way. I'm a freelance,... Sign in to see full entry.

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