Editing Otherwise: Fresh Approaches to Stories and Settings

A few weeks ago, I spoke with an academic who had never heard of developmental editing and didn’t understand it. Isn’t that cheating, they said? And doesn’t peer review provide all the feedback an academic author needs? The confusion came from not knowing how academic publishing workflows actually operate—and I’ve been there myself. When I wrote my first academic monograph, I didn’t know what developmental editing was at all. And I didn't know that I could source help from ou