WHY GREAT EDITING IS A NON-NEGOTIABLE IN PUBLISHING

You’ve finally finished your manuscript. Months—maybe even years—of pouring your soul onto the page. Characters brought to life, research painstakingly compiled, ideas neatly spun into sentences. You're ready to share your work with the world. But there’s one thing standing between your book and its readers: editing. Let’s be honest—

Let’s face it: the slush pile is the literary version of a black hole. Manuscripts get sucked in, never to be seen again. But what if yours didn’t? What if your pages didn’t just get skimmed — they got flagged, dog-eared, and passed around an editorial room with whispers of “This one’s got something”? If that’s the dream, you’r