The Editing Apocalypse, or Why Authors Need Editors

The following is the transcript of a guest of honour speech I made at the Conflux 8 convention in Canberra on Saturday 29 September, 2012.


My name’s Keith Stevenson. I’m a writer, reviewer and podcaster. I’m also a past editor of Aurealis Magazine and currently the publisher and editor with coeur de lion publishing, an independent press specialising in Australian speculative fiction. And it’s