/lit/ - Literature

I've heard that for certain genre contracts, the writer is obligated to write a certain amount of words or pages every book they come out with.


Even more so in romance, the author has to ensure that there is a certain amount of smut/sex scenes and they have to occur on certain pages in the book.

How much of that is true?


Have you ever gotten into an argument with a writer over the editing? How do you handle resistant writers or spoiled ones? Ones that can't seem to ever get shit turned in on time?


Have you ever accepted a book with terrible grammar but a great story? Or do you guys generally just skip anything with terrible prose or grammar? Does grammar or syntax fall under you to fix or is that handed off to other people?