> Interesting post. Like you, I've generally considered editors for books to be good things, but then again I've always gotten the impression they work more *with* the author rather than after him. But I'm not in a position to know this.

I remember somebody I knew was getting a book published and what happened was she finished writing, sent it to the editor, who in turn read it, critiqued it, gave a couple suggestions and sent it back.

This happened a few times until they both deemed it good and then it got published. So, in essence, they do work together.

El_Diablo