I'm going to rant
Jeri here. I told you on my last post that I was editing a book for a friend. Well, here it is!
And it looks great. Except one thing, this has my picture in it, but it most certainly DOES NOT represent my editing skills!!
The author, whom we'll call Joseph, said this when I pointed out some of the errors:
"There are more than a few. I didn't merge the files properly between what I had here and what you sent me. It's got "character" that we didn't intend it to have.... Still, it's been well received, and the mistakes haven't been considered a distraction (thankfully)."
Other than grammatical mistakes, there are twice-printed letters. This is because he gently refused my request to look over the final version to make sure things were in good form. At first I told him I wasn't too upset about it, but now I've realized that I cannot use this as an example of my work, and when people read the credits, they will pin me with the mistakes. I am more than a little embarassed!
2 comments:
if you want to have it as a portfolio piece you could explain that your client chose to not use your editing suggestions maybe?
or just reference a section that you edited heavily and they did use your amazing skills.
some writers are cocky and partially insane. i, too, learned that the hard way.
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