So, How Can An Author's Editor Help Anyone?

First, let us establish credentials. 

The image you see above is only a part of what you can see if you visit my blog, A Magazine Called Love (blogspot.com), which has at the moment more than 2000 long essays of at least 1000 words each. Note the slogan: "Frank H, world's most highly original, creative writer online."

My other blog, Creative Thinkering (blogspot.com), has its own list of 950 long essays. My slogan there is: "World's creative genius online, writer of non-fiction."

My name blog, Frank A Hilario (blogspot.com), has 470 long essays. My slogan there is: "A creative writer, his medium & idiom blend into a rich reach."

That's a total of 3,420 long essays. I have other blogs. My estimate is that I have written and uploaded at least 4,000 long essays. Those essays were written mostly within the last 12 years, from 2005.

And oh yes, I received in 2011 the award for being the Outstanding Alumnus For Creative Writing from the UP Los Baños Alumni Association, with Pids Rosario as President. So far, I am the first and only recipient of that award. I'm a teacher. I finished neither a journalism nor a communication course.

In the mid-70s to early 80s, I founded 3 publications and was editor of all of them for the Forest Research Institute: the monthly newsletter Canopy, the quarterly technical journal Sylvatrop; and the quarterly color magazine Habitat. In 2006, I was the Editor in Chief when the Philippine Journal of Crop Science was recognized as world class, receiving the coveted ISI (International Scientific Indexing, now ISI Web of Knowledge) status, being up-to-date and the editing equaling if not exceeding world-class standards.

And what has those essays and my award-winning writing and world-class editing any relevance to author's editing? You ask. Plenty! I say. All this is what I have found in my 42 years of writing and editing:

You cannot edit if you cannot write.
You can edit well if you write well.
The Writer knows how things go right;
the Editor knows how things go wrong.

My long experience says the following is a good list of what you can expect an author's editor to be:

(1) adviser

(2) amicus curiae (friend of the court)

(3) authority

(4) coach

(5) consultant

(6) demonstrator

(7) divine master (I’ll help you divine what you want)

(8) educator

(9) expert

(10) inspirer

(11) instructor

(12) missionary (his mission is to teach)

(13) private instructor

(14) specialist

(15) tutor

Do I mean an author's editor is any one or any combination of those? No. I mean he is all of those at one time or another! So, go look for the best author's editor you can find!