Comments on: On Wilco, Joe Meno, and Editors. http://www.yourbestguess.com/scowl/2009/06/30/on-wilco-joe-meno-and-editors/ Tobias Carroll lives in Brooklyn, New York. He has covered music and books for a number of publications, and his fiction has appeared in THE2NDHAND, 3:AM, Word Riot, and as part of Featherproof Books' "Light Reading" series. He is presently working on multiple projects of varying lengths. Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:41:34 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tobias http://www.yourbestguess.com/scowl/2009/06/30/on-wilco-joe-meno-and-editors/comment-page-1/#comment-267062 Tobias Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:53:32 +0000 http://www.yourbestguess.com/scowl/?p=1956#comment-267062 Patrick, I do think the question of where editorial work is (and will be) done is an evolving one; I definitely picked up on that in the Meno profile, and during a John Wray Q & A at McNally Jackson a few months ago, he had similar positive things to say re: his interactions with his editor at FSG. But if it's not coming from the publisher, I'm not sure where the logical place for it would be: on the agent side? Via a third party? If it's the latter, though, that opens up any number of issues based on who's bringing in that third party. It's certainly a question I'd like to see more coverage of... -Toby Patrick,

I do think the question of where editorial work is (and will be) done is an evolving one; I definitely picked up on that in the Meno profile, and during a John Wray Q & A at McNally Jackson a few months ago, he had similar positive things to say re: his interactions with his editor at FSG.

But if it’s not coming from the publisher, I’m not sure where the logical place for it would be: on the agent side? Via a third party? If it’s the latter, though, that opens up any number of issues based on who’s bringing in that third party. It’s certainly a question I’d like to see more coverage of…

-Toby

]]> By: Patrick http://www.yourbestguess.com/scowl/2009/06/30/on-wilco-joe-meno-and-editors/comment-page-1/#comment-267058 Patrick Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:03:08 +0000 http://www.yourbestguess.com/scowl/?p=1956#comment-267058 Tobias, Thanks for the excellent response to my post. I'm actually in agreement with you on the importance of editorial services, though I'm not entirely sure those need to be tied to a publishing house. Increasingly, in fact, editorial service is being outsourced. In fact, in a profile Edan Lepucki wrote at The Millions, Meno discusses how most of the major publishing houses didn't want to change his most recent work, The Great Perhaps, at all. He chose Norton in large part because their editors seemed the most interested in working with him. But that remains my main objection to most self-published work: it hasn't been polished (or even vetted) by anyone. It hasn't, in fact, had a different set of eyes on it. --Patrick Tobias,
Thanks for the excellent response to my post. I’m actually in agreement with you on the importance of editorial services, though I’m not entirely sure those need to be tied to a publishing house. Increasingly, in fact, editorial service is being outsourced. In fact, in a profile Edan Lepucki wrote at The Millions, Meno discusses how most of the major publishing houses didn’t want to change his most recent work, The Great Perhaps, at all. He chose Norton in large part because their editors seemed the most interested in working with him.

But that remains my main objection to most self-published work: it hasn’t been polished (or even vetted) by anyone. It hasn’t, in fact, had a different set of eyes on it.
–Patrick

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