Joshua Palmatier

Yeah. I have an editor who has been persuaded - by someone else, I'm fairly sure - that the word "it" is crude and ugly and awkward and to-be-avoided. Which means that every story of mine he handles, every time that word occurs he's trying to persuade me to swap in something else. It's becoming an expression of paranoia, rather than legit editing. I am resisting, but we could almost fall out over it.