funny editor!

LAUGHS

I have, for years, been telling the story of asking my then-editor Betsy Mitchell whether my upcoming book could have a woman with a HEAD on it, because the fashion of book covers at the time was for them to not. I knew the logic was that readers can identify better with women they can kinda sorta imagine themselves to look like (Betsy also added “at least on their best day, back in high school, while wearing an unnoticeable all-body girdle and just having come from the best hairdresser a...