It is time Every novel has a moment when the long, solitary work of drafting shifts into something more collaborative, more concrete, and—let’s be honest—scary. I’ve reached that moment. I’ve found (and hired) an editor for Water’s Edge. We begin working together at the end of April. After two years of shaping this story, revising it, tearing it apart, rebuilding it, and living with these characters and all their messy flaws, it’s finally time to place the manuscript into e