[HPforGrownups] In defense of JKR's editor

[Andrew MacIan]

No: HPFGUIDX 35157

Greetings from Andrew!

Just a short comment....

--- alexpie at aol.com wrote:
{snip}

> 
> As I sit here, editing an absolutely ghastly book, I
> must address these 
> comments.  If I had been editing JKR, I would have
> surgically removed any 
> number of Dumbledore's twinkles, without anesthetic.
>  And, you know what?  
> JKR would most likely have put them right back in. 
> No matter how brilliant, 
> how tactful, how talented, the poor, oppressed copy
> editor is, the 
> unappreciative, monomaniacal, lunatic author ALWAYS
> has the final say.   Not 
> that I'm implying that JKR is any of these things.
{snip}

May I offer a 'thank you' to you (categorically)
nonetheless?  Having had a couple of editors in my day
that were gems, and more than few who couldn't resist
the urge to edit my *style* and thus need to be damned
to whatever hell they fear the most, I still
appreciate the work that most editors do, and that
usually goes unappreciated by pros and fen alike.

So...who knows?  When the author is re-redlining the
galleys, he/she might pause as I have and say, 'You
know...she's right!  I don't know why I didn't catch
that.'

Cheers,

Drieux

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