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I need to take exception to the editor/agent/publisher bashing here. There's a good side and a bad side to pretty much everything, but those people have been enormously helpful to me in my career--and not just in economic terms, but in helping me stretch and improve as a writer. My editor, especially, works with me closely at certain stages of every book, and every book is better for it.
And while I have at times had issues with my publishers, the fact remains that they've fronted advance money that has enabled me to write, and they've been patient when I've encountered difficulties.
Certainly the publishing landscape is changing, but to portray editors, publishers, and agents as some kind of parasite on the writer is simply a disservice to truth--at least from my experience.
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