Her editor offered work on a full colour book with a French setting which she went to France to research.

"It was no wonder that a young editor like myself would offer to provide a service far outside his normal duties," he wrote.

Back then, after 121 others had turned this book down, one lone editor offered a standard $3,000 advance.

The editor, seeing Homer's liking for food, offers him a job as their food critic.

The new editor for children's book offered to publish the novel if it were cut in half and eliminating some passages aimed at adults.

No luck; the best their editors could offer was Rhatican in 1980.

And editors at the time did not offer it.

The commissioning editor may offer to "take a look" at your proposed Contribution.

But the paternalistic platitudes that editors offer are useless, even dangerous.

At one point, an editor even offered me $25,000 for it.