Today we welcome Karen Syed of Echelon Press for a publisher’s view of the editing process. Welcome, Karen! Dani: How many of the various types of edits does each of your books go through from start to finish? Karen: When the book is submitted I make general notes as I read. Then, upon acceptance, it goes to the Sr. Editor who makes a general read and makes general comments. At that point it is assigned to an editor who goes back and forth with the author until they are both certain it is as clean as it can be. Then it goes back to Sr. Editor, who goes through and offers any further notes. Goes back to editor and author until they are again certain it is clean. Once it gets the approval of the Sr. Editor, it comes to me. I do final formatting and word by word read-through and make any further edits or comments. At that time, a last PDF proof is sent back to the author so they can make a final read-through and make any revision requests required. I go back and forth wi...