People don’t read books anymore. Agents don’t read their submissions—their interns do. And editors certainly don’t edit books like they used to. That’s what I usually hear rumbling around conferences and on comment threads from dissatisfied and disillusioned writers. Yet somehow every Tuesday there are new books out that agents (and their interns) read, editors edited, and people pluck off the shelves. How is this so?
Today I’ll tackle one in this Triumvirate of Grumbles: that editors don’t edit.
