Implications of authorship: The author/editor relationship from proposal to manuscript

This paper looks at the authorleditor relationship in the early development stage of forming a chapter-by-chapter outline of a work of non-fiction for publication in book form. The relationship is considered using a real-world example of the developmental editorial work of Nancy Flight, Associate Publisher at Greystone Books, on a manuscript that is eventually published as Gardens of Shame: The Tragedy of Martin Kruze and the Sexual Abuse at Maple Leaf Gardens. Implications of the authorleditor relationship are considered through a step-by-step review of editorial correspondence and successive drafts of a book proposal for a single work of non-fiction, and by considering the example of developmental editing work on a book proposal within contemporary editorial theory and discourse.