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Originally Posted by rhadin
In my 30 years as a professional editor, I have edited many hundreds of books and many thousands of authors. If I were to line up 1,000 of the authors to select those who were not in need of the services of a professional editor, I might find 1 --- the remaining 999 all would benefit from a professional editor's services.
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That is what I hear people say also. Ellen Datlow said at a con recently that among all manuscripts she have received it was 1 or 2 that could be published without any editing.