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Originally Posted by rhadin
It is not the editor's job to make sure crap doesn't happen. The only power copyeditors have is to suggest and recommend. Dozens of times I have suggested to publishers that a book desperately needs a developmental editor and/or shouldn't be published in the present form, only to be told that it was going to be published for reason xyz, usually because the publisher didn't expect sales to be sufficient to justify the expense of a developmental editor or publication delay.
And I know personally of hundreds of instances in which authors have rejected necessary editorial changes because their "writing is perfect" and the publisher just wants the book published. Editors do not deserve the blame in this game!
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It was the author's first mainstream published book so I don't think it's the second. Sorry I still stand by I think the editor didn't do their job in this particular case.
A author can't edit their own work. Their brain inserts missing words or they just don't see issues due to the way the brain works. Everyday on Facebook I read status posts from Famous authors talking about their Editors. So I am well aware what an editor does.
This is the only Sourcebook I have read that had this issue. I buy all their Romance books and I am member to DANL so I am still baffled as to how it got by them for print. She has since then published 3 more books and none of them have that issue.