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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MW Turnage" data-source="post: 1471291" data-attributes="member: 7250">It's happened before. I know of several authors that have had problems with copyeditors becoming overzealous and actually rewriting text.  John Barnes had a novel in the 90s (Kaleidoscope Century IIRC) actually get pulled from shelves and republished on the publisher's dime because someone decided to rewrite whole parts in the prepress stage after he'd statted vetted the final copy; it was so bad that at one point two characters were merged into one...who then proceeds to have an argument with himself for several paragraphs. Something similar happened with John Brunner's Shockwave Rider in it's first edition, too.I don't think this quite falls into that category, though. There seems to have been enough of a rewrite that the other people involved (an editor or editors presumably) should probably have a writer's credit, but I suspect that Paizo has an editorial policy against giving editorial staff bylines for rewrites (which is a good thing, BTW). I haven't read the article, and from the sound of things don't particularly want to, and the changes are rather hard to fathom...but I don't see where Paizo did anything wrong. Dumb, maybe, but not wrong. I don't recall Noonan saying he wanted his name off the final article. If he did and they refused I'd say they were in the wrong, but in general this is fairly normal and expected for the gaming industry. Most of the other areas of publishing, as well. If you think this is bad, you should see Hollywood, where minor editing and typo-fixing is sometimes enough to give someone a co-author credit (and half of the payment).</blockquote>

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