/lit/ - Literature

>>23295703
Yes. I think about that story every day: easily one of the most compelling concepts I've ever seen. Don't forget to leave a review so we can give you positive feedback

>>23034750
Do you want an editor? I just finished another Cold War novel.

Anyone need a professional editor while I wait for Amazon to process the latest project I worked on?

>>22615372
Yeah, it's the only place on the internet I really visit these days.
Thanks for the recs and the occasional laugh, anons.

Anyone need a cheap editor? My business meeting fell through, so I'm free this week.

https://www.fiverr.com/matthewg42

>>21059441
For me it just feels disrespectful of other people's time until I've finished the manuscript (20% left) and have done at least one serious revision pass myself. I know I have a 1k chunk to rewrite, and some changes to make throughout for consistency, and prose across the board will be sharper then so why have people read when I know it needs major changes already? I might put out a call for beta readers on here once I'm in that position though.

>>20855108
I can edit your book. My previous clients have been very successful, perhaps too successful. Reply with your email address: I'll send my writing samples and a sexy picture of me in a suit.

I edited a nonfiction book very similar to this, and it sold well. Do you have an editor yet? What's your email address?

>>20839598
I can look at them for you. I just had a really good idea for a short story myself, actually

>>20819788

So, yeah, I like editing, uhh... What can I say? There's nothing like the rush of hunting grammatical errors down and KILLING 'em! I mean my heart's beatin', my heart's beatin', my hands are shakin', my hands are shakin', BUT I'M STILL EDITIN', AND I'M STILL GETTING PAID MINIMUM WAGE. IT'S LIKE BOOM, SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT! BOOM, WRONG FORM OF ITS! BOOM, THAT'S NOT WHAT A FUCKING SEMICOLON DOES!!!

>>20777493
Rewrite it as a short story, send it to me for cheap editing: we'll get it published in a Lovecraftian magazine. The concept is good and your writing is passable

>>20718082
I can give advice for free, but I've done rewrites for a nominal fee. I've published many articles, worked on books that were sold on Amazon, etc. We can talk at maat042@yahoo.com

Editorchad here offering his services to mortals once more. Message me with your manuscript and we can negotiate the price. My previous clients have been very pleased!

>>20710285
how much of your shitty book have you already written? I would edit it for cheap to pay gambling debts

maat042@yahoo.com

Editorchad has returned to offer his services to mortals once more. Hit me up at maat042@yahoo.com and we can discuss your manuscript

Anybody need an editor? I work cheap

Editorchad here. Let me know if you have a piece you want me to fix. I have a LinkedIn and charge extremely too low for my services!

maat042@yahoo.com

Do you need an editor? I work for cheap

Editorchad here again. offering to correct your work for a nominal fee. I have references and everything! Also stop using semicolons; you don't know what they do.

maat042@yahoo.com

Professional editor and published dude still willing to work for cheap except for that one idiot who thinks that my entire career is a scam (???)

>>20655818
I'm a professional editor. I would look at and correct your manuscript for a nominal fee. Let me know if you're interested

maat042@yahoo.com

>>20653835
i am a professional editor with nothing to live for, i would help you for a nominal fee

>>20640315
the best thing you can do is write what you want and search for the publisher that best fits you, even if it is a small publisher. build up your audience online and if the tradpub route fails, self-publish as ebooks. tradpubs will pick you up if they see you making money afterwards. this happens with so many genre fiction writers, for example, alan baxter struggled to get publishers interested in his initial ‘weird fiction’/urban fantasy works until he self-published and developed an audience, and from there harpercollins (I think) picked him up and published his newer works. just do what is right for you and your work.

>>20640372
I mean the new publishing paradigm was amazon self-publishing, and it is still going strong for romance and fantasy writers. but again, your success on there relies on you having an active online presence and ‘giving the people what they want’. there is no set writing/reading community or sanctuary; goodreads is basically abandoned, and Amazon’s efforts to publish print books have more or less failed save for the digital self-publishing side of things.
from my faint memory, the only publisher I know of that heavily curates their list is faber&faber, but they are VERY lit fic and definitely have the money to support that small, niche list being that they are quite an old house. i went into studying writing/publishing believing this was the case for every house, and I am still confused as to why it’s not.
I believe there should be a platform and/or house that combines all the good parts of the industry, even including sites like ao3 and goodreads, that caters to every need of writers, readers and industry professionals. but that would take time, networking, and money, the latter two more so.