Freedom is a wonderful thing, but it comes at a price that the freelancer pays.īut enough of that rant. As someone who has always been a freelancer, I know the story well. Editing used to be a prestige career-something that somebody like Jackie Kennedy Onassis, a former first lady, might do as a second career! Now it’s something 20-somethings do for a few years and then move on, and old-fashioned ideas like pensions no longer apply. On the other hand, it means publishers don’t have to pay health insurance or vacation pay or pensions for those people. On the one hand, that means that really amazing people are out there for hire. It’s a measure of how publishing has changed that none of those wonderful editors are still in the business! Most of the other top editors who were there at Bantam and elsewhere are now freelance. I’ve been fortunate in my writing career to have worked with some wonderful editors, like Marie Cantlon who edited my first three books, and Linda Gross Kahn who edited The Fifth Sacred Thing. Just upload the damn thing to Amazon and have done with it.īut I’m old-school enough to believe that every book benefits from skilled editing. On the one hand, it’s never been easier to self-publish. So yes, I am going to self-publish City of Refuge. I’m so grateful to all the people who’ve written in to share how much The Fifth Sacred Thing has meant! And to say variations on “You’re right, Bantam is wrong, there is indeed an audience for a sequel!
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