Nice Editors Day

I have deemed today to be “Nice Editors Day”

Too many times we gripe about form letters, editors who never respond to partials or fulls, etc. etc. Today, I want to recognize the romance editors who have truly been nice people. Maybe they wrote an encouraging rejection letter. Maybe they helped you through a difficult time when you were in the middle of copy edits, etc. Who has been a huge support to you?

For me, there is one editor I’d like to recognize: Tanya Starratt of Harlequin Temptation/Blaze. I sent her a proposal aimed at Flipside (before the line died) and she wrote the most positive, encouraging rejection letter I’ve ever received. Basically it said something to the effect of–you’re a great writer, I love your voice, but this story doesn’t fit Flipside. Send me something else. I think I reread that rejection letter 40 times, because it didn’t feel like a rejection letter. So she’s an editor who is a Nice person.

I’m hoping that Emma Dunsford of Mills & Boon will get back to me soon on my complete. Then, depending on her response, hopefully I can put her on my Nice Nice list, too!