"Arjouni was the first writer to put a self-confident, aggressive, individual and charming German Turk on the national stage as a character in popular culture," said Gabriele Dietze, a fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin and a former crime-novel editor.
When I turned in my first officially young adult novel, my editor didn't cut for content.
"If you wrote that in a novel, your editor would throw it out and say it's so cliché it's ridiculous," Smith said.
"When I wrote my first novel my editor wrote the sleeve note and he called it 'a monument of male shame'.
Supposedly, I was trying to curry favor with the novel's editor in hopes of.... Frankly, I don't recall now what I was said to be hoping, only that I wasn't, in fact, hoping it.
Michael Pietsch, the publisher of Little, Brown and the novel's editor, said in a statement that the book "takes agonizing daily events like standing in lines, traffic jams, and horrific bus rides — things we all hate — and turns them into moments of laughter and understanding".
A novel flowsheet editor has been realized as the center of such an architecture, which allows the creation and management of hierarchical flowsheets for various design alternatives in different versions on different levels of detail for a variety of applications in the design process.
The Buffalo News awarded the novel its Editor's Choice.
Before starting each novel, the editor would send us a character summary.
In a recent (May/June 2010) Poets & Writers, Ben Percy talks about hearing from Fiona McCrae of Graywolf Press after submitting a novel; the editor wanted him to radically revise the novel, including changing the point of view and adding six different subplots.
The second, to be published only six months later, will be a follow-up to "Foul Matter," her 2004 spoof of the publishing industry in crime novel form — editors use blood instead of red ink.
