{"id":369,"date":"2015-11-24T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torawriting.com\/sandbox\/?p=369"},"modified":"2017-02-07T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:43:13","slug":"editing-company-or-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torawriting.com\/sandbox\/editing-company-or-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing Company or Editor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep thinking about writing a blog on self-publishing, then I get a different idea. Today, my self-publishing research became sidetracked by the Book Editing Services page on the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bookbaby.com\" target=\"_blank\">BookBaby<\/a><\/span> website. BookBaby seems to be the Full-Service Self-Publishing company of choice these days. I\u2019m sure there are others, but my searches, random readings, and the universe keep taking me there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFull-Service Self-Publishing company\u201d sounds a bit fictional \u2013 or contradictory \u2013 to me, but that seemed the best way to describe a company that will do most of the heavy lifting for you to get your book published without going through an agent and traditional publishing house.<\/p>\n<p>But, I digress in my digression.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I want to avoid self-publishing by talking about Editing Services. Part of the heavy lifting that <span style=\"color: #006633;\"><strong>BookBaby does NOT provide is editing<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 but they have several companies they recommend.<\/p>\n<p>Curious, I checked out those pages.<\/p>\n<p>They all seem to espouse their brilliant editing staff (one claims 100% Ph.D.s), ability to quickly turn around a manuscript, and accept submissions on-line.<\/p>\n<p>Some included their rates, one even has an instant quote functionality based on the number of words and how quick the turnaround needs to be.<\/p>\n<p>What none of these sites gave me was a sense that the editors develop a relationship with their clients. If I wrote a book (a conversation for another day), I would want a qualified editor who preserved my voice, worked on a reasonable time line, and didn\u2019t cost a fortune. (All things I saw advertised.) However, <span style=\"color: #006633;\"><strong>I would also want that editor to be someone who got to know me.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I like getting to know my clients. I like having conversations with them, learning about them, having them argue me out of an edit. I love that many of my clients are repeat clients and that more than a few are friends. <span style=\"color: #006633;\"><strong>I did not get the sense that any of these on-line editing houses offered personality, let alone personal touches.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-370\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/torawriting.com\/sandbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Dollarphotoclub_12866032.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-370\" src=\"https:\/\/torawriting.com\/sandbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Dollarphotoclub_12866032-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"OK, maybe it wasn't this much work, but it felt like it. Are you going to give it to just anyone to edit?\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/torawriting.com\/sandbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Dollarphotoclub_12866032-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/torawriting.com\/sandbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Dollarphotoclub_12866032-1024x674.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OK, maybe it wasn&#8217;t this much work, but it felt like it. Are you going to give it to just anyone to edit?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While this doesn\u2019t work for every service, I tend to have more satisfaction when I hire an individual instead of a company. First off, you can interview an individual.<\/p>\n<p>Many people put a piece of their soul into their writing \u2013 be it a memoir, marketing piece, or something in between. And if not a piece of soul, then at least a great deal of effort. Why would you give that to someone you\u2019ve never met for correction?<\/p>\n<p>The only reason I can see submitting a manuscript to an on-line editing service: at the point I\u2019m satisfied the message is clear, but I\u2019m not so sure if typos or the wrong use of their\/there\/they\u2019re has slipped in. Anything more serious can easily become too personal for just any old Ph.D. on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep thinking about writing a blog on self-publishing, then I get a different idea. Today, my self-publishing research became sidetracked by the Book Editing Services page on the BookBaby website. BookBaby seems to be the Full-Service Self-Publishing company of choice these days. 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