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Old 03-28-2010, 12:38 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by neilmarr View Post
You can's just land readers with nonsense or expect serious professional editors to virtually re-write the not-so-good work of sub-standard authors. Life is literally too short for an editor to take the also-rans to publication. You would need editorial teams the size of armies.
Having experience editing such books, I can tell you that the editorial process costs many thousands of dollars for the not-so-good books of substandard authors. The last time I worked on one as a developmental editor, the client -- against my advice -- insisted on spending his money to get what he believed was a great book into publication shape and paid well over $15,000 for the editorial work. He was happy until he discovered that readers weren't interested in his book.

Publishing is an expensive crapshoot.
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