Emperor: the gates of Rome

[ParthianBow]

An editor will. The suggestions of an editor who is interested in buying your book are always worth listening to. Remember, an editor's opinion counts. Nobody else's does.

Fascinating to read this old thread (for which thanks to Nathan Ross for mentioning it on the 'New evidence about annihilation of the Ninth Legion')
And JMR - I couldn't agree more with you on the above point. My editor has the most amazing ability to see right to the crux of potential/real problems/things lacking/ways to improve a manuscript. Her input helped my second novel immeasurably, and what I learnt meant that my third book was much more polished. She read it and accepted it immediately (apart from one scene addition, which took me 2 hours to write). Here's hoping that the same will apply to my fourth (which I'll 'finish' in the next 7 days).