The edits for The Widow-Maker arrived in my computer inbox at 1:02 am, Good Friday morning, accompanied by a request I respond to them by 10:00 am. Fortunately, I was up at 6:30 am and opened the inbox, which gave me three and a half hours to the deadline.
Given the time out to trade authorities on capitalization, I made it by ten minutes (The edits were not onerous and I'm a fast reader) and remain satisfied by the results. I doubt the haste was the editor's fault and I have no doubts of the expertise applied to the manuscript, but I was extremely fortunate so little needed to be changed.
Usually, I like to enjoy edits, analyzing their thrust and storing the information for later use. I've done that since with these and have a few more tidbits to add to my store of knowledge.
I've been very fortunate in my editors and New Concepts abdication of that role means they are off my list of publishers - which is a pity.
It's still a great life.
Amy.
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Wow, that was a quick turnaround with edits. Like you, the non-editing thing at NCP has led to me moving on. It's sad because the company used to be so much better.
Happy Easter to you and your family.
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