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Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.