After reading the first draft, an editor I respect said to me, "But what else are they, other than old?" I was mortified, and began to ask myself some soul-searching questions that I should have answered long before I'd written the opening word.
With a working title of A Man of Principle, Bock gave the draft to editor Phyllis Bruce in 1999 and sold it to Knopf for US$250,000.
Vision and mission statements for the Annals were drafted by editors and approved by the SSO Executive Council in fall 2008 (Table 2).
Even so, when he showed an early draft to an editor in 1991, he was told it was unpublishable: far too frightening for kids.
After being queried by the office of the publisher about a possible error, Craig Whitney, who is also the paper's standards editor, drafted a response that was approved by Gerald Marzorati, who is also the editor of the magazine.
Edward Kosner, the former Newsweek editor drafted 16 months ago to revamp the slumping Sunday edition of The Daily News, has been named the newspaper's editor in chief, the publisher, Mortimer B. Zuckerman, announced in a news release yesterday.
I did write a lot more about those, in earlier drafts, and my editor rightly steered me away from that because it was obligatory, and as I say in the piece my grasp of economics is nothing to brag about.
The e-mails show that, after an adamant stand, Leweck eventually sent a proposed draft of an editor's note explaining the disappearance of the article to Ehman and several other high-ranking America's Cup officials.
After completing much of the novel, Stead gave the draft to her editor, Wendy Lamb, who liked it.
Keep in mind that this will not be your final draft, as your editor may decide to change something else.
