Then he sent back my blog and basically told me that it had to be completely rewritten.\u00a0 But that wasn’t all: he thought it should be re-shaped to say what he<\/em> wanted, which was bizarre, since in our previous emails, he’d never told me any of his opinions.\u00a0 If he had, I would have gone elsewhere.<\/p>\n Was I annoyed?\u00a0 Of course.\u00a0 I’d been publishing dozens of articles, essays, short stories, and books for years and dealing with editors who were much more professional than that.\u00a0 Except for one, “and thereby hangs a tale….”<\/p>\n I sent the piece to The Huffington Post.<\/em>\u00a0 They took it right away, beginning my long relationship with that site.\u00a0 I waited till the blog was posted and wrote back to the first editor that I was sorry he didn’t like my approach, but someone else did.<\/p>\n I included the link.<\/p>\n Sometimes revenge isn’t just sweet, it’s swift.\u00a0 This time it was so<\/em> swift that it wasn’t even worth saving the editor for a character to put into my Nick Hoffman mystery series<\/a>–appropriately disguised, of course.\u00a0 I just brushed it off.<\/p>\n Lev Raphael is the author of 25 books in many genres which you can find on Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0 Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com\/LevRaphael<\/a><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been publishing for a long time and I’ve dealt with all kinds of editors.\u00a0 Some are laid back.\u00a0 Some are very hands-on.\u00a0 Some are hard to pin down.\u00a0 Some are extremely helpful and supportive.\u00a0 And a few–very few–are difficult or even opaque.\u00a0 They tell you one thing but mean something completely different that you … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[635],"tags":[183,641,296,291,640,682,548,638,636,553,637,441,160,290,639,495],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors","tag-blogging","tag-contested-will","tag-editing","tag-editors","tag-james-shapiro","tag-revenge","tag-shakespeare","tag-shakespeare-denial","tag-shakespeare-denialism","tag-shakespeares-plays","tag-the-authorship-question","tag-the-blogging-life","tag-the-huffington-post","tag-the-writers-life","tag-writers-revenge","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5483,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/5483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/shakespeare-writing-300x168.jpg\")
<\/a>The editor really liked my approach–at least I thought so.<\/p>\n