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<blockquote data-quote="Orcus" data-source="post: 305335" data-attributes="member: 1254">If you do the Best Editor Award, you should just call it the &quot;Sue Cook Memorial Best Editor Award&quot;. Dont get me wrong, I use Mike from FDP and he is awesome (really awesome). But Sue is in a class by herself (in many ways). She is hands down the best editor I have ever had the pleasure to work with (and that includes my time as an editor of a legal journal). Lets put it this way: there is a reason she is the one running the Editor seminar at GenCon. But I sure do see how it would be hard to do a best editor award. I have seen manuscripts that needed only a little cleaning up, and I have seen others that needed tons of editor work. Lets say both final products were equally clean, how could the judges know that frankly one editor had a way harder job than the other and did a much better job?ClarkPS--Sue would have edited out all my parenthetical comments and worked them into sentences. Actually, she might have just thought it was all crap and sent it back--though she would have done so in a way that I would never have felt that she thought it was crap. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orcus, post: 305335, member: 1254"] If you do the Best Editor Award, you should just call it the "Sue Cook Memorial Best Editor Award". Dont get me wrong, I use Mike from FDP and he is awesome (really awesome). But Sue is in a class by herself (in many ways). She is hands down the best editor I have ever had the pleasure to work with (and that includes my time as an editor of a legal journal). Lets put it this way: there is a reason she is the one running the Editor seminar at GenCon. But I sure do see how it would be hard to do a best editor award. I have seen manuscripts that needed only a little cleaning up, and I have seen others that needed tons of editor work. Lets say both final products were equally clean, how could the judges know that frankly one editor had a way harder job than the other and did a much better job? Clark PS--Sue would have edited out all my parenthetical comments and worked them into sentences. Actually, she might have just thought it was all crap and sent it back--though she would have done so in a way that I would never have felt that she thought it was crap. :) [/QUOTE]

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