Do you ever need an editor!

And author Alain de Botton branches out into couples therapy

This week in Ask a Publisher: “Do I really need a book editor?”

Well. We haven’t read all of the 320,000 books published in North America last year but our sample suggests that the vast majority of them were unedited or poorly edited.

There are a number of reasons for this. These days, it’s relatively easy for someone to write a book, run it through spel…