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Originally Posted by rhadin
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.
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This agrees with what I've read elsewhere. Once an author is "successful," editors' demands become suggestions easily rejected. The tight writing of the early novels gives way to excessive exposition & other verbiage.
A great example is Terry Goodkind. I loved his first few novels, and although I've not abandoned him, his later novels sometimes seem to be written by someone else. It gets so bad that I sometimes skim ahead a few pages to get on with the actual story.