...and no, you don't need to part with those gold bricks you stashed under your bed. You don't even need to break your piggy bank. All you need to do is decide which one of your organs you can let me harvest, your liver or your kidney...I'M KIDDING!

You don't need to do even that. I swear.

Here is how this works.

Thanks to a question from one of you beloved hamsters who watched my very first Facebook LIVE VIDEO on how I got from making $3.40 per hour to $300 per hour in 10 months as a full-time writer, I finally got motivated to write out the rates for my marketing/selling/brain-transplanting sessions on how to sell your art/books/mismatched socks and to make money (later I'll put these up here on my site, finally, together with your testimonials and pictures of you being quartered then skinned and boiled in a ginormous pot of borscht and...FOOLED YA!).

Let me sing praises to all editors.

HOW DO YOU DO IT, YOU AMAZING PEOPLE?!?

I'm on the other side for the first time, editing for R. E. Vance his magical series called Paradise Lot (there are all kinds of mythical creatures in them, every single one you have ever heard of and more). Turns out, editing is hard work, dammit. It's so much harder than editing my own shit that it doesn't even compare. And though I have just started doing it this week (Or last week? Something...), it has already taught me a great deal about the process, both about editing for others and about my writing. And since Maximilian Majewski asked me to share, here you go.

1. You have to slip into the skin of the writer.

My consulting rates! Yes, you can afford to use my brain...

Editing someone else's book