Hee. Oh, dear, dear. Now, I'm not saying you can't find some decent writing in a e-pub...for most the most part, it's...um. Not impressive.

And it was hugely bitchy, but she deserved it. SHE was hugely bitchy.

Every time I hear a writer brag about how they don't pay attention or don't need editors, I just think "Anne Rice! Laurell K. Hamilton! YES YOU DO, BITCHES! Writing is supposed to evolve! You do not crap out perfection, dumbass."

Now, I'm not saying you can't find some decent writing in a e-pub...for most the most part, it's...um. Not impressive.

My critique partner is exclusively e-pubbed and she writes amazing erotic romance like damn and whoa.

But for the most part? No... not impressive.

And a good editor is worth their freakin' weight in gold.

As an editor for Drollerie, I wish I could let it go at the typos.

I would think that an editor who only points out typos is more of a...lazy proofreader?

I've been a proofreader and I pointed out grammar mistakes and logical inconsistencies -- and that was in crappy direct-mailings.

Oh, Barb, somehow I just put it together that you wrote Adiós [rest of title redacted] ! And to think, I bought it for my library without even knowing the author was a Buffista. I haven't read it yet, but it definitely looked good, and I know it's circulated a bunch. Anyway, cool!

Edit: Sorry, it occurred to me this morning that you might not want your board name associated with the titles of your books.

I liked it a lot, Kate. I'd recommend it.

Edit: Sorry, it occurred to me this morning that you might not want your board name associated with the titles of your books.

S'okay, Kate, I don't mind. And yay on the circulating a bunch!

I haven't read it yet, but it definitely looked good

It's really good, as is It's Not About the Accent. You should definitely read them both.

Thanks for all the other book recs for my Twilight readers. Fay, are all the books you recommended YA? Longer and chewier is fine, but if any of the books has anything too explicit, I definitely can't recommend them to 9th graders. Just want to make sure.

Well, they're all from the kids' section of the bookshop, and I suggested them because I think they are pitched at the same age/reading skill level as Twilight - do you consider 'YA' to imply particular parametres beyond that? Valiant includes sex and drugs (I gather that in the Twilight books the protagonist does eventually get laid too - personally, I preferred Holly Black's take on the protagonist's sexual choices and empowerment to what I've seen of the sparkly mormon vampire saga, but YMMV), but Tithe and Ironside don't have shagging, iirc. Or at least - there's the implication that the protagonist's friend gets some Big gay sexin', but we don't get to see it.

Offhand, I can't remember whether the protagonists of the others eventually get some between-the-sheets action. They do have love interests, and plenty of sexual tension, and retain their own identities, their own choices & their own destinies.