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Originally Posted by Iphinome
There is that but we might as well get to my biggest problem with Baen of late. I don't know if the authors are refusing to be edited or the editing staff are just sub-par but as gatekeepers Baen is doing a poor job. No one seems to be taking an ax to the 6 page long chunks of expository text, saying hey how about you try to let some of this information come out naturally as part of the plot and how about cutting this down to two sentences because if this is the eighth book or whatever in the series, anyone reading it probably read the seventh and we don't need a 12 page recap of events from the last book in the middle of chapter nineteen, just saying.
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If I had to bet, based on my own experience as an editor, it is the authors fighting any editorial changes, often flatout refusing to be edited, and not a failure of the editing staff. Increasingly, authors are fighting the idea that they need editors. And if an author sells well, the publishers simply give in.