If you want to be a successful editor, at some point you’ll be working with authors. There’s no getting around it. The ability to manage that creative but often highly complex relationship is one of the essential skills editors need. It’s right up there with being able to wield a red pen or edit in Word. Yet working with authors is one of the most challenging aspects of editing practice.
Can Barbara Sjoholm’s An Editor’s Guide to Working with Authors (now out on Kindle) help you learn how to work well with authors? Sure. But you\\\’d better be ready to think hard about how you do it!