Occasionally, colleagues call on me and ask me to critique a college paper or write a letter of reference—to use my words and craft to help them in some small way—and I’m delighted they trust me to do so.
But then, faced with the editing of my own work, I feel obligated, almost, to warn them—ask at your own risk! Faced with my own mistakes, all I can say is thank God for editors.
To my sister, Victoria Morgan Potter, a technical editor who MUST start submitting her own work—thanks for the multiple read-throughs, conferences, and for all the assurances that, in spite of the color red, I can write!
And to my Crimson Romance editor, Tara Gelsomino, thanks for the hard work helping me polish stories and for your high expectations, explained with patience. And red ink.
Stories are better for red ink.