For the second time since I began my book-publishing quest, I’ve found myself copyediting my own work, and sending lists of my mistakes to the so-called editor … Is this really the way it works? The problem is that I don’t have complete confidence in myself as an editor. I’m supposed to be the writer! The editor is my back-up, someone I can count on to fix up my text … Has this relationship died in recent years? I do envy writers who have a good editor! And publisher!
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Copyediting Hell!
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011New Year, New Attitudes
Monday, January 3rd, 2011It’s been a long while since I wrote a blog. Life gets busy, and I’ve been battling with a rather poor editor … the one my publisher assigned to my book, “Lost and Found in London.” If my blog can be of any help to other aspiring writers, I want to warn them about poor editors, who either don’t know basic grammar or want to change the writer’s voice … or both. I got the latter and have been fighting to save my piece of art even since I signed on the dotted line. My first message for 2011? Let the writer beware!
