An Editor should make you feel like this; mine did.

How it feels to get the book back from the editor. Henry N. Gifford made me feel like this. All that work, years spent on “Personal Legends of Piemonte”. Gratitude feels good.

Some say editors are like priests or psychologists, for me, their effect is that moment after you’ve mowed the lawn.

You can sit down with a glass of wine

and feel like this