The Terror of Editors

Sometimes I forget that being a writer means that, inevitably, people are going to actually read what I’m writing. The last few weeks I’ve been working through the final draft edits for The Light Keeper, which has meant many rounds of what’s called “beta edits” (i.e. editing). I’m lucky to have many generous, brilliant friends who took the time out of their busy lives to be advanced readers for the novella. They patiently engaged in debates with me over whether a crab “tunneled” or “burrowed” under the sand (before I finally just nixed the troublesome line altogether) or the levels of anachronism involved in wine glass technology.