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Black Day for the Blue Pencil
Blake, Morrison http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/06/featuresreviews.guardianreview1
Publisher: Guardian
Date Written: 06/08/2005
Year Published: 2005
Resource Type: Article
Once they were key figures in literary publishing, respected by writers who acknowledged their contribution to shaping books. But, argues Blake Morrison, editors are now an endangered species.The editorial tradition, first of all, is for self-effacement. As human beings, editors may be far from self-effacing, but as workers their contribution goes largely unacknowledged - a nod in the preface or a thank-you from the author at the launch party and that's it. They're the ghosts in the machine, the secret sharers, the anonymous power behind the throne.
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