From: mbottorff@lshelby.com
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
> On 6/8/14 6:13 AM, 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, but also because
> > I don't want potential readers to be filtered out based on how much
> > money they have.
>
>
> The latter I can understand. The former shows a very large lack of
> understanding of what editors DO. Yes, there are sucky editors (just as
> there are lots of sucky writers) but the right editor will make your
> story better -- and still YOUR story -- mostly by pointing out areas
> where you may have failed to do the best you could have.
Yeah, but unless publishing the book was their idea, they tend to want a
lot more money than I have, so I'm making do with volunteer betareaders
instead.
But even though I'd be happy to get some editorial input, I'm kind of
sympathetic to people who have editor aversion because of running into
some power-happy idiot who was somehow put in charge of a publishing
project.
My mother donated some material to a historical book about the area she
grew up in, and the book's editor "corrected" a number of things in my
mother's contributions, and didn't bother to send my mother any proofs,
but just sent the "corrected" material straight off to the printer.
So now my mother gets the joy of being credited as the author of an
article in which her own family name is consistently spelled wrong,
(amoung other problems).
That sort of thing is enough to give anyone hives.
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