Some publishers now employ ‘sensitivity readers’ to check books for potential offence – a step that can only occupy a chilling effect on creativityAfiction editor doesn’t control a manuscript’s content,but tries to ensure that the author’s intentions are fully realised. Authors are free to ignore their editors’ advice. I often avail myself of this veto power – sometimes out of a pigheadedness for which I’ll pay the price. But after multiple instances of positive reviews quoting passages that my editor wanted to cut, I figure Im batting no worse than one for one.
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Source: theguardian.com