I have an entire day before I begin to work on what I like to call the “Book Project from Hell.” In my years of working for this publishing firm, I think I’ve only encountered one such other project, which shall remain unnamed, of course. So, with this current project, my “hellish project(s)” score is now up to TWO. Not bad you might say, but then again you have not survived going through page after page of seemingly endless, badly written prose—grammatically incorrect, unclear and wordy, with direct quotes galore—or months of consultations with authors who can’t seem to make up their minds as far as the content of their manuscripts is concerned (like what happened with Book Project from Hell No.

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