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Originally Posted by rhadin
Most professional editors I know will not do a sample edit of more than a very few pages and will not (knowingly) do a complete chapter largely because of these efforts to get free editing. Many also will not provide a free sample edit.
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Absolutely! It's one thing to do a test (although IMO, tests aren't actually as good a reflection of someone's ability as a proper piece of work); it's quite another to do a sample for nothing.
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Originally Posted by rhadin
If an editor thinks that is what a publisher/author is doing, the editor often posts a note on the professional forums alerting colleagues to the scam.
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Which is useful, but obviously only to members. Having said that, most freelance editors usually have some sort of informal network at least, so it often doesn't take very long to find out if someone in the same field has been offered the same 'sample'.