Should I Hire an Independent Editor?

 Q: Do you work with a professional editor? Why/why not? What would you look for if you hired a professional editor?

-from Susan

 

Good timing. For the first time ever, I will be working with a developmental editor this summer. Not for my French series, which is humming along nicely. But during the pandemic’s gloomiest days, sitting at home alone, not yet under contract for the two new French mysteries and feeling the itch to write, I had a light bulb moment.  Why not write a 21st century American ...