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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
80% of the manuscripts that came in over the transom were automatic rejects, with the only question whether they got a form rejection slip or something that went into a little more detail about why it got bounced.
10% of the manuscripts were an automatic buy, and publish as is.
10% of the manuscripts almost made the grade, and needed work to get them to publishable state. That 10% occupied the largest part of his time as editor.
He was editing for short story markets, but something very similar happens for novels.
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Except according to the
read this and weep link in the useful
insight into how a book is made article that the original article on this thread linked to, 95-99% of the submissions are automatically rejected.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
If you think the services of an editor can be dispensed with to give you the book cheaper, be careful what you wish for. You might get, and I doubt you'll be happy with the result. What you see from a commercial publisher is the manuscript after editing. You don't see it before, and might be unhappy if you did.
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Except according to
BearMountainBooks this is exactly what happens. Costs get cut so books don't get edited.