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Well, I've never worked with an English editor, so can't comment there. My experience is with American SF editors. Don't know about the rosy cheeks, but they're all, as far as I can tell, people who really loved books and loved science fiction and who wanted to work with books--and started at lowly jobs for nothing pay, in hopes of one day getting a proper editor job for next-to-nothing pay. Of course, they're statistically as likely to be nice people or arseholes as people in any other line of work. But most of the ones I know are quite decent, quite smart, and a tribute to their species.
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