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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 3452888" data-attributes="member: 20239">Every book I've ever seen that is chock-full of typos has had an editor listed in the credits section (most also have a proofreader).  Are you saying you think Sue Cook is simply a better editor than most, or do you think publishers would get better work from their editors if the threat of divorce were in play?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I edit my own work every day and I find plenty of errors.  I don't find them all (which is why I have others read the work too) but I'm perfectly capable of running my own spellcheck or recognizing that I've repeated an entire paragraph, which puts my work about 80% ahead of some of the stuff that comes out of Black Industries.  Personally, with anything I write, the last thing I would do is allow someone else to have the final editing pass over the work.  They might have the penultimate pass, but if it's my work, with my name on it, then my eyes are going to make sure it's perfect before it goes out the door.  IMO, the writers who allow themselves to be excluded from the editing of their own work are the ones who are being foolish.</blockquote>