One of my fellow editing team members had one of the most awesome poems I've read in a while yanked out of the recent anthology because she refused to have the spacing changed on the work because it didn't fit in with the rest of the house style. I can understand the need to keep it the way it was intended, but just remember, it's your call to refuse the changes and thus miss out on the publication opportunity.
Speaking of editing, I once removed stuff from an anthology because it was sent back to me from a so-called editor who put four grammar errors IN her corrections to send back to me to go over. I figured if that's what was going to be put out for public consumption and it was going to be crap WITH mistakes an 'editor' was putting IN it, I sure as frap didn't want my name anywhere near said publication. (To this day, I do not regret pulling my work.)
I was like 'wtf already?' because they were really bad grammar errors and not even anything near what I had written, so there could have been no error about what was there to begin with. This person just didn't need to be editing, but she'd obviously sucked up with the right person. *g*
To this day, I'm convinced that editing is like teaching--just because someone has a piece of paper saying they are qualified to do something doesn't actually mean they should be doing it. LOL
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Date: 2006-10-21 12:56 am (UTC)Speaking of editing, I once removed stuff from an anthology because it was sent back to me from a so-called editor who put four grammar errors IN her corrections to send back to me to go over. I figured if that's what was going to be put out for public consumption and it was going to be crap WITH mistakes an 'editor' was putting IN it, I sure as frap didn't want my name anywhere near said publication. (To this day, I do not regret pulling my work.)
I was like 'wtf already?' because they were really bad grammar errors and not even anything near what I had written, so there could have been no error about what was there to begin with. This person just didn't need to be editing, but she'd obviously sucked up with the right person. *g*
To this day, I'm convinced that editing is like teaching--just because someone has a piece of paper saying they are qualified to do something doesn't actually mean they should be doing it. LOL