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Originally Posted by James_Wilde
Put me in touch with an agent or publisher who is willing to take me on, and I'll happily put up with as much editing as anybody could wish.
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Things *are* a wee bit different in the trenches from the ivory towers, aren't they?
All businesses routinely cut corners to get product out the door; the more careful and successful ones are hailed for their "lean" processes. The less careful or lucky ones struggle.
The one facet of self-publishing that traditionalists just don't seem to grasp is that for many projects the choice isn't between self-pubbing and trad-pubbing but between self-pubbing and not-pubbing. And when not-pubbing is not an option...
It's not an easy choice to go with "good enough" but it *is* a choice and it does not necessarily lead to disaster per-se.
As Adam Osbourne said: "Adequacy is sufficient."