When Tech Editors Go Bad
If you write a book that deals with computers or the Internet you will likely have an important cog in your editorial process in the form of a Technical Editor.
Your Tech Editor watches your back and checks your steps, facts and work process.
A Tech Editor is your guarantee of excellence -- but if that editor drops the ball in the review process and begins missing deadlines -- the entire book project is plunged into jeopardy.
Delays of even a few days in replacing a misbegotten Tech Editor quickly translates into thousands of lost dollars because the book is late to the marketplace.
The lesson is this: Pick your Tech Editors wisely and those you know may not be any better than those you have yet to meet.
Money, deadlines and responsibility can wound even the best informal relationship so choose wisely and carry a big blue pencil.
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Writing a book takes a lot of effort. Doesn't it take like 100 people with hands on throughout the process to get a book made? It's easy for one link to fail and slow everything down.
There are editors and those who print the book and those who drive the books into the stores. Books are an industry and each part of the publication process takes effort and dedication to get the final wanted result at the cash register. If one person stumbles the domino effect splashes on everyone down the line.
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