From: mumble@nomail.invalid   
      
   On 06/08/2014 09:54 AM, mumble wrote:   
   > On 06/08/2014 05:40 AM, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   >> On 08/06/2014 11:13, mumble wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> I think that I would tend to "self-publish", mainly because I don't want   
   >>> some halfwit editor changing words that change meaning,   
   >>   
   >> You see, this kind of statement worries me. Editors are an essential   
   >> part of the publishing process. I know you can get editors who are not   
   >> in tune with what you do, especially if you're nor dealing directly with   
   >> your commissioning editor and have been passed on to a copy editor who   
   >> doesn't quite 'get it' but by an large an editor can make a fgood book   
   >> great or a basic book passable.   
   >>   
   >> My editor is worth her weight in gold. (And she's up for a Higo this   
   >> year for 'best editor - long form')   
   >>   
   >> Part of the problem with self-published work is that it's not always   
   >> been edited professionally.   
   >>   
   >> Jacey   
   >>   
   >   
   > A good editor would be worth his/her weight in gold, but a bad editor   
   > could create a mess.  How do you know upfront what you're going to be   
   > dealing with?   
      
   I should add here that my opinion is based on some of the editors I've   
   dealt with in the corporate/technical environment who couldn't   
   differentiate between a noun and a verb but insisted on "fixing" it anyway.   
      
   On the other hand, I notice that especially now that I'm getting older,   
   the words that get typed by the fingers are not always the ones sent by   
   the brain, and since the fingers generally know how to spell well enough   
   to get past the spellchecker, some kind of skilled proofreading is   
   essential.   
      
   So my take is proofreading definitely, editing maybe at the end of a   
   barge pole; that may be unfair to most editors working in fiction, but   
   imo the only reason for paper-publication anyway is to get paid money,   
   which in fact I avoid because I prefer not to contribute to the   
   government arsenal via the taxation/extortion mechanism.   
      
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