This past month I read The Forest for the Trees, An Editor's Advice to Writers, by Betsy Lerner. It was recommended to me by #BookTok and had a lot of controversy around its Goodreads reviews. Here's why... For one, it's not a book that offers advice on the mechanics, that is the nuts and bolts, of editing a manuscript. There's nothing on grammar or pacing. No sage advice on genre, sagging middles or creating synopses. Instead, it's an insider's view of the publishing machin