Author Update: Editing, Round One!

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WHAT I LEARNED IN ROUND ONE OF EDITING IS…

(Spoiler Alert: The answer is not to head-hop.) So, you’ve gotten the book deal. What next? The answer is almost always edits. Some people fear it; some people revel in it. Most of us just nervously await feedback and then frantically scribble once we have an editor’s requests in hand.

While a number of authors wait weeks, even months to hear from their editor due to overflow, I was lucky and got my edit requests literally the day I signed my contr...