I would agree, Steve. My first novel sat at about 90,000 words when I got accepted with a regional publisher. As I went through the editing process with my editor (and she is a very talented author herself), we slashed lots of fluff, most of it being sentence structure issues, or redundancy, etc. But she also suggested several scenes to be further developed. In the end, my word count actually increased slightly.
So to me, that seems normal. My editor there did such a good job that even though I left the publishing company to self publish, I plan on using her again.
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