[ SECRET POST #2675 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2675 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Beta reader/author horror stories

[lunabee34]

This wasn't fanfic but an editing job I picked up in graduate school. Someone called the English Department and asked if anyone was willing to do some copy-editing for modest pay. I agreed to do it because I can edit really quickly and knew it wouldn't be a huge time suck for me. I meet with the woman at the coffee shop, and she gives me the manuscript at which point she tells me that the author, her husband is in jail. I start flipping through the document and realize that it's this bizarre, out to lunch, kinda racist manifesto ranty thing but I don't know what to say to the lady. I don't want my name associated with it in any way, but I don't know how to say to her face that I can't do it because it's weird and skeevy. So I agree to copy edit the piece, make her swear that I won't be thanked in the acknowledgments, don't even tell her my name, and scurry away to spend a couple hours editing this "book."

Re: Beta reader/author horror stories

[(Anonymous)]

Did she ever keep to her word, that is, not associating you in any way? And was the piece as horrible as it seemed summed up or worse?

Re: Beta reader/author horror stories

[lunabee34]

Yes she did. This was back when self-publishing something meant financing a small run of print books yourself which this guy did; I looked through one once to be sure I was not credited.

It's been so long ago that I can't really remember the gist of what he was writing about; it was such a garbled mess. It was ranty and memoiry and racist but I can't remember why it was racist. Completely forgettable drivel. LOL