“Do you have a style guide?”

It’s a simple question—but it often leads to a lot of back-and-forth. Here’s how to start one without overthinking it.

That question—“how does this work?”—isn’t really about process.

It’s about all the nervous everythings underneath it.

When a fiction writer asks an editor, “Is my book good?” they’re rarely asking for an opinion.

Here’s why editors shouldn’t answer that question.