My best thing today is my editor. I have a freelance one I found after a long and expensive search a year and a half ago, and she's tough, demanding, and very helpful as we work on a prequel to launch a 5-novel series I wrote back-to-front over the last decade. Only she hasn't read any but the first two, as I wanted her to edit as though she were the reader. So all she knows id that the story arc of the two male lead characters ends up with them going as conquistadors with Pizarro. (Of course my first novel would be in Peru, I raise and work with llamas, right?)
Anyway, she emailed me that she is taking a family trip to Peru, and will happily swap several hours of editing if she can just get her hands on my last two novels.
Given what she charges per hour, that's the most anybody is EVER likely to pay for one of my books!
So I confess that I'm now re-reading
the Inca's Ransom (190K) which I haven't even looked at for 3 years, hoping 'the editorasaurus' will like it.