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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 […]
You Can Have Your Dessert in a Desert
Posted by Editormum on Thursday, 10 November 2005 in Definitions | ∞
Don’t mix the spelling of these two. It might leave a bad taste in your mouth — or your reader’s. Dessert is the noun we all know and love as the final course of a meal. Sweets to wrap up a culinary experience, or to make a bad day better. It always has two S’s […]