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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
I'll give you another example ... Stephen King again (poor SK, I love his writing, but his editors suck eggs).
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I'd blame King. I think he long ago reached the point where no editor dared touch his work. (When you have sales like King's, you can insist on being published as is, and make it stick, because the publisher will be afraid you'll jump ship for another house if they don't cave in.)
Tom Clancy is another in that category. The last Jack Ryan book badly needed editing -- there was at least one plot thread that went nowhere and could have been excised without notice -- but I don't think anyone dared point that out to him.
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Dennis