From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com
On 6/8/14 10:40 PM, Michelle Bottorff wrote:
> 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.
I can understand that, I don't have the money to pay them either. But
that just means that either I find a publisher who wants my book, or I
ask if people want the book badly enough to help me get it properly put
together, including editing. At least with _Polychrome_, the answer was
"Yes, and we'd also want you to get a Bob Eggleton cover for it, too".
>
>
> 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.
Thus far, the worst I've had is an overzealous copyeditor (whose
overzealousness was noted by my actual editor). All the editing on my
books to this point has been very useful.
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Sea Wasp
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