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Old 11-04-2011, 08:22 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by rhadin View Post
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.
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.
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