The post approval
Upon completion of the manuscript and submission of it to the publisher, your editor edits the book. The editor then contacts you with his or her suggestions, to which you respond. In our experience, editors’ suggestions have been greatly beneficial and have enhanced our books. At times, certain editors’ opinions may be hard to swallow, but they’re usually on target. Most editors are extremely professional and will improve your book.
Occasionally, an editor’s suggestions will be off the wall or will move the manuscript in a direction unacceptable to the author. If this occurs and you can’t work it out with the editor, summon your agent to duke it out. It’s part of the service you are paying for.
When you finish making the agreed-upon revisions, your editor will accept your manuscript. At this point, a substantial portion of the advance against royalties is usually payable, frequently half.
If the book is produced in-house, the edited manuscript is sent to the production department. Frequently, production, which includes copy editing, design, and indexing, is outsourced.When these functions are subcontracted, someone in-house reviews them.
After the book is copy edited, the manuscript is sent back to you with the editor’s query marks. When copy editors’ queries are transmitted via a computer file, they must be answered by using an electronic editing feature, which is available in most word-processing programs. Otherwise, copy edits are sent by hard copy and must be attended to by hand.You must address each of the copy editor queries and then send the manuscript back.
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