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Originally Posted by Catlady
Then the writers need to act professionally and be willing to put in the time and effort to produce a quality product, and not act as though they're entitled to free help from other professionals.
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I'm not sure where you're getting that. I pay several different editors and have also paid artists. Most of the authors I know pay for at least one editor. I can think of one who...no, I take that back. She does her own copyediting, but she does hire a storyline editor.
There are a number of authors who don't get any editing help, but that is usually because they can't afford it--not because they expected it would be free and it turned out it wasn't. They know it costs something. They just don't always have the money. It's a choice like anything else.