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Originally Posted by starrigger
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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You've obviously had some good experiences with them. From my experiences I've come to regard them as a bunch of arseholes (freeloading arseholes quite a lot of the time) who get their jobs through university contacts and friendships above any kind of merit. They are the same as agents and producers in the music world, only more so. Vapid, ruthless and pointless within the digital realm. The sooner we're rid of them, the sooner we can start building a truly equal creative ecosystem between the audience and the creator.
Disclaimer- I'm English, so my experience is from an English perspective. Maybe agents and editors are all rosy-cheeked and rainbow coloured in the US and other countries, I wouldn't know.