The cost of editing

One of the surest signs that you're working with a professional editor is their professionalism—editing is their career.

Hey, y’all—

Anyone can hang out a shingle as a fiction editor. Few professional certifications or training programs exist for editors, and standards vary widely. That leaves the responsibility for sorting out the pretenders on you, but that shouldn’t leave you feeling as though you were dangling from a plank over a sea of ravenous sea monsters.

When you’r…