Yesterday, Fahim took over the task of editing Basement of the Universe. I hadn’t even finished rewriting the opening scenes that were needed since I’d deleted the old ones – we’d changed our minds over where the opening scenes took place, and that location change changed everything else in those opening scenes along with it.
At any rate, Fahim will deal with that now, since it’s his city – Kabul City – that we’re setting it in. 
The word count when I gave it over to him was 50,929. Yes, very short for a novel that should ideally be between 80 to 100k words. My first drafts tend to be spare on details and description – I tend to gloss over it in an effort to get the basic story down quickly. So, Fahim will have a bit of a job to do there, but he’s up for the task. 
At the end of his editing shift yesterday, Fahim tossed the file into the Groove space and asked me to read it. He’d edited the first two pages or so.
I read it over, and said, "What changes? This is exactly how I gave it you. Where are the changes?" He laughed his maniacal laugh and pointed them out. He’d kept my voice so intact that, short of comparing this document to my original, I didn’t have a clue. And his version read better, too.
Ah, yes. I think this will work very well. Very well, indeed.
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Good luck with the edits. Like you, my first drafts are often +20,000 words shorter than the final draft.