The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published by Arielle Eckstut

Author:Arielle Eckstut
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Published: 2015-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Acquiring Editorial Love

While it’s crucial to be on the same page with your editor from the get-go, you also want to keep up an ongoing dialogue. When you start working with your editor, it’s a bit like going on a blind date that you hope will end up in marriage. It will probably be a bit awkward at first, especially if you don’t feel a personal connection. But as you continue dating, you want to establish an increasingly comfortable rapport—a relationship where ideas flow freely and easily. If this doesn’t happen, don’t panic. Many writers confess in hushed tones that they walk on eggshells around their editors. Your editor doesn’t have to be your best friend. She just has to be your professional ally.

Often your relationship with your editor will not heat up until you hand in your manuscript. Then what happens? The whole publishing machine starts gearing up to produce your masterpiece. As word spreads that your long-awaited work has finally arrived, excitement swells through the various departments and The New York Times starts calling. Right?

Wrong.

Almost certainly, this next phase of your relationship with your editor involves . . . WAITING. After that, you’ll probably have to . . . WAIT. Then, most likely, there’ll be more . . . WAITING.

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