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Reflections on the Editing Process
And The Great Hiatus Problem The first time you hand over a manuscript for someone else to judge, you brace yourself. You tell yourself it’s just feedback, it’s part of the process, it’s how the book gets better. And then the comments arrive. Recently, I submitted my first full-length Sherlock Holmes pastiche for consideration. I’ve…
What would Dr. Watson think?
Dr. John H. Watson, late of the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers, knew hunger. Not in the genteel way of a missed luncheon, but in the pit-of-the-stomach, battlefield-hospital sense. In Afghanistan he would have seen soldiers weakened by poor rations, and in London, patients in the East End whose ailments were really just the visible scars of…