5/19/2023 0 Comments The siren book tiffany reisz![]() ![]() The actual editing he loved, taking a novel with pretensions of greatness and actually making it great. He brushed the sensation off and read the line again. Zach paused in his reading as he felt the shadow of something old and familiar whisper across his shoulder. He opened the manuscript and read the first sentence: “I don’t want to write this story any more than you want to read it. Editors almost invariably changed a book’s title, but he had to concede it was an interesting choice for a work of erotica. Across the scarlet-red cover blazed the title in a lurid Gothic font-The Consolation Prize. But she’d obviously had a little too much fun printing out this one for him. Mary knew he preferred to read his books in hard copy versions. Zach examined the manuscript with suspicion. And his hopes for the book were not high. He shouldn’t care that Nora Sutherlin’s personal life was rumored to be as torrid as her prose. Not the author, not the market, not the reader…one judged a book only by the book. He’d stolen his philosophy of editing from the old New Critics-it’s just about the book. Zach threw Sutherlin’s bio and sales projections in the trash. ![]()
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