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Originally Posted by Kemp
Just out of curiosity, is there an amount or percentage of books that you edit that end up selling well/getting picked up by a publisher?
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I have no idea about sales but 100% of the books I have edited were picked up by a publisher.
Sounds great, doesn't it? So what's the catch?
100% of the books I have edited have been sent to me for editing by publishers. When I have been contacted by authors, the deals never went through for various reasons but primarily because the authors had unrealistic expectations that I couldn't fulfill (such as that the book would be picked up by a publisher or agent after editing) and they were unwilling to pay the fee (one author thought I should feel privileged at being asked and do the work for free).