Thursday, July 31, 2008
The End of Editing?
Blake Morrison: Black day for the blue pencil | Books | The Observer: "Once they were key figures in literary publishing, respected by writers who acknowledged their contribution to shaping books. But, argues Blake Morrison, editors are now an endangered species."
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What I've seen from several major publishing house editors is pretty sketchy work in the last few years. I'm all for editors and editing, but when they release a book for print with the word (for example) "then" where the word "than" is intended (twice in one recent read) it bothers me.
I'm with Benjie. Some of the novels I've read in the last few years by "name" authors looked like an editor hadn't been anywhere near them.
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