ABSTRACT
After the many imponderables covered in the last two chapters, we now turn to an area that will seem more grounded than what has gone before – the process of ‘caretaking’ typescripts through to publication date and just beyond. In an overstretched, competitive place such as a publishing office, the one unifying factor is the book and, by extension, its ‘keeper’, the editor. When an editor remains very firmly involved in the publication process, not only will the book be better published, the editor will remain at the centre of a successful team which can go on to repeat those successes with future books.
