Sometimes a Tuesday is just a Tuesday

Today was a less exciting, but also less rainy, version of yesterday. No meetings with authors, no hours hunched over the photocopier, just a lot of reading on art therapy and occasionally marking up pages with my red pen. Reading manuscripts is definitely the most time-consuming part of my job, but it’s also the thing that makes it feel most like editing to me, the thing I enjoy most about it. There’s a genuine pleasure in taking a good book and helping the author to make it better. I don’t think this particular book is going to take a lot of working, mostly just logistical wrangling for the images and accompanying DVD, but I still need to finish reading the last few chapters.

Beyond that, it was just your typical Tuesday.