Com, Volume 3, Number 5 A-Clue. Com by Dana Blankenhorn Volume III, No. Last year I reported often about companies like Trafford Publishing and Ingram's Lightning Print . Sure, I reasoned, this is a xerographic process, not offset printing, but after a few thousand dollars up-front for typesetting, a cover, and initial production, anyone can become a publisher. Now I have a soft spot in my heart for editors.
Good editors are hard to find.
And many good book editors today are out of a job. When he came to town recently, for the wedding party of a friend, he sat me down on a hotel bed and spun a chilling tale. Major publishers will no longer look at anything that's not practically a guaranteed best seller, he said. So publishers are shortening their lists. They're squeezing out authors - especially fiction authors.