How Do You Know When a Book Is Done?

When a book is done, it's on the spread sheet. That' that's how i know it. The first thing an editor does is they read the manuscript like anybody else. Now, as an editor at a publishing house, and you're being paid a salary to bring in best selling works,. You've got to edit them and get them out the door as soon as possible. When there's a million dollars the door waiting to come back in, when that book arrives, my publisher isn't really all that interested in making sure that scene seven in act three is as perfect as it possibly could be. He's looking at me to say, are we going to get people angry about