If the paper reads well and is likely to be publishable in your journal following revision, advance it for peer review. Here is how. If you will be desk approving it for external review, prepare the paper for review and upload a blinded PDF. That is, you will save the paper, blind it (remove any identification of author or affiliation in the paper or its properties), add line numbers, and upload the blinded PDF with line and page numbers to the system. Each of the steps is now explained.