Author Frau here: these are not final edits. These are just edits, or even rewrites.
Final edits are what your editor asks you to do with an editorial letter. You do them, possibly one round after too (or more if you aren’t a sharp drafter) and then it’s copyediting (might be some small rewriting again as this is a third set of eyes) then it’s proofreading which someone else will correct then it’s page layout time.
This whole performance makes me wonder about her diagnoses too. There’s no perfectionism here that I might expect with an autism diagnosis or the ability to spot mistakes. I’m trying to come to terms with a likely looking ADHD diagnosis myself, but it’s also made me realise the fact I wrote an almost immediately publishable book that only needed additional chapters at edits stage (which I also wrote first time, no extra editing needed) in FIVE MONTHS was because ADHD means I have something called hyperfocus in something I care about and get obsessed with. Jacks either not able to do this (no ADHD), or she’s swung the other way and gone full executive dysfunction because she does not care about this book and so cannot summon the concentration she needs (does have ADHD) Though if her paltry output requires 120 hours a week then she definitely doesn’t have ADHD, because if I could focus for that long, I would be getting shit done. Except I can’t. Because, you know, ADHD.
Sorry this is punctuated with a bit of merailing, but I think it makes sense?? Argh.
