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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3449536" data-attributes="member: 19675">In no particular order...1) The size of the publishing company doesn't matter...according to the forewards in their 30th Anniversary Sci-Fi and Fantasy books, DAW is basically a 6 person company- I imagine most of their non-editing staff is outsourced.2) I agree about having someone else edit the work- editing your own work invariably results in missed errors.  While I'm not a professional editor, I've done serious editing work at the graduate school level- in my penultimate project for my MBA, I was the only native English speaker on the team, and everyone had a section of the research results to write up.  Had we simply assembled the assorted pieces and submitted them, we wouldn't have done very well- it would have been unintelligible.  I took over the editing process, but with each section I edited, I made sure the original authors took one final look at their edited work before submission.  In my final project, we went through more than 20 revisions, with each team member editing the presentation independently, and with each of those edits compared to each other and the original document.  Fresh eyes really make a difference.3) The Fresh Eyes need not be pros as long as they are at least competent spellers.  Even if the guy just delivers the mail in your building, if he's reasonably educated, he'll probably catch stuff you never noticed.  Heck, he doesn't even have to be familiar with the subject matter- anyone can potentially notice that a chart is missing, or that your pagination is off.  The aformentioned DAW anniversary editions?  The softcover Sci-Fi edition has a table of contents that is at least 20 pages off- apparently, nobody checked to see if they had changed it after the forewards had been inserted.</blockquote>

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