tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post4546396030880834363..comments2023-12-23T04:56:29.702-05:00Comments on Ferule & Fescue: Getting It Published, part one billionFlaviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-66900374212376792322011-10-25T14:54:12.093-04:002011-10-25T14:54:12.093-04:00ntbw: Yep. They'll be sending it back to Reade...ntbw: Yep. They'll be sending it back to Reader Two. But I've been invited to detail what I've done, and why (after I do it), which I suspect is intended to frame the reviewer's response--either for him personally or for the editor/editorial board, or both.<br /><br />Not sure if it will then go to a third reviewer, or if the goal is just to get two reviewers who say I've done good job of addressing their objections before it goes to the pub board.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-55712856871172042932011-10-25T14:05:48.343-04:002011-10-25T14:05:48.343-04:00I think you're impulse is right that overall, ...I think you're impulse is right that overall, the news is good. though it's sort of crazy-making to get very disparate reviews--happens to me all the time these days, since I publish in two intersecting fields with some significant differences.<br /><br />Has the press asked you to write a response to the report? I've been asked to do that several times, and in cases where reviewers made dramatically different, sometimes even utterly contradictory, suggestions, that's where I could explain what I planned to do and the rationale for those plans. I found that quite a useful exercise.<br /><br />Also, do you know for sure that the editor will send your revisions back to the same reviewers? In other words, you may not necessarily have to convince Reader Two, just be generally convincing. In the cases of a couple of my books, the editor didn't send out the revisions again at all--he just took the revised version to the press's editorial board, which gave it the go-ahead. As a reader for a press, I was once asked to read a manuscript that had been revised in response to other reviewers' reports. I've also been asked to read a manuscript for a second time when I provided a report, so sometimes it does happen that way.ntbwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02413694779063198549noreply@blogger.com