Even worse, there are a lot of writers I know who go through the publishing process and the first person to actually read the manuscript is the copy editor. You

Even worse, there are a lot of writers I know who go through the publishing process and the first person to actually read the manuscript is the copy editor. You’d think people in publishing read, but no… A landmark study of this, pertaining to literary agents, was just published today: https://antipodes.substack.com/p/literary-agents-dont-read-how-i-proved https://antipodes.substack.com/p/literary-agents-dont-read-h...