We discuss editorial humility and the question we should ask ourselves at the start of every project: Who’s the boss of the book?

Listen to find out more about

• Why the author is the boss of their book
• The kinds of changes we make
• Explaining the why of our edits
• Working with anxious authors
• Discovering the root of the author's worries
• Sample editing to reassure both parties
• Establishing the terms of service
• How editors provide services, not products
• When editors do get to be the boss
• 'Humbly, your copyeditor' (Liz Jones, Responsive Editing)

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Denise and Louise

• Denise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com
• Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing

Music credit

'Vivacity’ by Kevin MacLeod

• Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4593-vivacity
• Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/