I recently had a friend go through this nightmare process. This article sums it up pretty well.
Like anything else, you want to “interview” the person you’ll be working with. If it’s not a good fit, swallow hard, bite the bullet, and move on until you find a good fit. They are out there.
DAN ALATORRE 
16 replies on “Beware Your Copy Editor!”
Thanks for the post! I’m in the middle of the editing process and mine is finding that I like to start dialogue with ‘so’ or ‘well’ A LOT!
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Sounds like a keeper. Let us know how it’s going from time to time, stranger! We wanna celebrate that book when it gets born.
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Will do. One day, I’ll share how a Southern gal works with a Canadian editor that doesn’t know how to speak Southern!! It’s been fun.
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Sounds like it. Does the editor want to hyphenate everything? I find my Canadian writer friends do that a lot.
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Thanks fort he share. Illuminating!
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Glad you liked it!
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I appreciate the struggle she describes.
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I made friends with an author type who had a book with a publisher and struggled for two years – just a little longer than I’ve known her – and I can’t think of more than a few nice things she said about the process, but I have a BOATLOAD of negative things she said!
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I can believe it! I sent a detective novel to a well known publishing house competition years back. Neve hearing back form them I contacted them. The reader they sent it to lived in LA and had “lost the manuscript.”
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That’s tame compared to some stories
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I can only imagine.
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Reblogged this on Kim's Author Support Blog and commented:
Loved the article, Dan! Thanks for sharing.
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woah very interesting article, a learning curve that I really had no idea about. Thank you for posting.
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Sure. I lived it vicariously. Sheesh!
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OK, I’m not, like, an official writer or anything, but I do suffer from the afore-referenced affliction knows as “red-pencil syndrome.” I’m actually in an edit war with one of our VPs….We always, always, ALWAYS correct each other. (Career suicide or grammatical bravery? You decide.) While we work for the same company, we are ethically and morally opposed on the Oxford comma…so we will never agree. 🙂
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Great points!
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