In July 2013, I served as the “editor-in-residence” for the Codex Writing Group, which meant basically I was asking a month-long AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) interview. With Codex’s permission, I’m re-posting the Q&As here on my blog. The questions were all provided by members of Codex.

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Since we have a few editor/writers here, what observations would you offer about the things new editors are doing right, doing wrong, or could do better?

It’s hard to generalize about that kind of thing, but the first thing that comes to mind that I’ve seen a number of times is just people treating writers poorly. This is mainly manifested in posting snarky things online–sometimes while reading slush, which of course makes every writer who has a story in your slush pile feel terrible and assume you’re talking about their story. So there’s that kind of thing. The thing is, if you do that kind of thing, writers aren’t going to want to work with you. And it’s also just mean, so there’s that.

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