Yinka, where is your editor? Part 3

Debut author of Yinka Where is Your Huzband, Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, and her editor Katy Loftus at Penguin, dish the dirt on the reality behind the dream of being published. Read the previous part here. THE AUTHOR: LIZZIE DAMILOLA BLACKBURN My phone buzzed. My heart thudded. I had just received the email. The email from my editors with my second round of editorial feedback. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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