What Goes Into Choosing the Right Editor for You?
Exploring what I need to complete the next book for publishing.
Following suggestions from my beta readers, I’ve been working on doing another edit to Savagespace I — Alliances and Consequences. I added some color and details that were lacking, as well as removed some repetition. Further, I cleaned up a few other errors, tightened some dialogue, and reassembled certain paragraphs.
The time has come to send the book to an editor. Once again, the challenge of getting the right editor for me and my work presents itself.
Getting the right editor is a question that will be answered differently by every author. Part of this is based on if an editor is familiar with your genre, the level of edit that you request and that they have to offer, their experience, and a general sense of understanding that’s nearly impossible to quantify in words. It amounts to do they get you and do you get them?
Some authors have an easier time establishing this relationship than others. Sometimes things happen that cause you to need to change editors. While this will differ for every author, there are things about the process of choosing the right editor for everyone that I’m certain are universal.
