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Hi, I heard of your job posting from a friend and I would like to work as your editor. I'm a longtime user of Webnovel and would be honored to work with the #1 original author. I already sented you a friend request on discord we could talk there

Why i dont understand lol? I wirte about 6 chapters a day and spend 20 minutes on editing, if i can get somoene to just proofread it will cut my time down by about 2 hours

This whole thread makes my head hurt. Pumping out that sheer volume of content and expecting someone to keep up with that working condition, underpaying editors, using stolen artwork of a copyrighted franchise...

This is a bad look. If you're an established author, you should not be exploiting your editor at $1 per 1000 words and certainly not at that volume with a turnaround that fast. That's no where near the industry standard for editing and is unethical.

(For the record - copy/proofreading is usually around $0.019 per word which works out as $19 a chapter for this. To give you an idea of how lowball this actually is).

Im not looking for preffosinal work, im litreally just looking for someone to stick inot word and right click what is underline in red.

I already pay an editor 5 percent of what I earn.
If this was an amozon official work, yes which i do pay aorund $2000 per volume for Line editing work as well. Im just asking for people to help not looking for professinals.

IF i was to pay for an editor for the amount of chapters and words i do that would be $4K per month.

But what you said was:

Also do you have Atlus' permission to be using Joker to sell your novel? Pretty sure he's trademarked.

Not a professinal proof reader, i thought it was clear by coming onto a forum place like this that i wasn't look for a professinal and thats what i meant by spell check.

As stated above, it is a place holder image. I have already paid for a commsion cover but it si in the process. I really wanted a perticular artist and he has a backlog of commsions at the moment.

99 Percent of covers on webnovel are not thier work. Webnovel has said this is fine, (I don;t know the legal details of it they have even paiid for facebook ads using the cover annd instagram ads. and they know its from persona.) But i know this is not right, which is why i am commsioning someone for a new cover, like i did my other cover for my other novel.

Webnovel is wrong from a legal standpoint here completely. Completely and utterly wrong and they could end up in legal hot water on this - as well as the authors on their platform who are using copyrighted or trademarked artwork in their covers. I've noticed you're still using that on Tapas, and that's definitely not allowed here.

People still deserve to be paid for their work. A dollar is literally nothing for what amounts to proofreading and copy-editing. Regardless of experience level.

This doesn't matter from a legal standpoint. What you have is a commercial venture, and so you need to be squeaky clean from the start. Saying "I've used copyrighted materials temporarily because I didn't wait for non-copyrighted materials" doesn't work from a legal standpoint at all.

I doubt either would bother because this is small fry business unless the author truly is raking in $1000s a month on this, but holy shit, they could. And if the author is raking in $1000s, that also makes the underpaying of this editorial offer even worse.

feel free to message them, my commission should be done by Wednesday. And as an authors work who is pirated everywhere, i know DMCA can not do anything for servers located in Russia and china

So you acknowledge that you lack the moral high ground by falling back on realpolitik.

I don't even have a portion of the size of this fanbase, and still pay my editor more than this for far less work. This is exploitation.

You can draw right? Judging by your deviantArt account.
Why not in the meantime waiting for comission, you draw your own cover? Or use free to use images?

Also you can comission Quirklicious (which bust CG drawing in 2010 costs from $250) but cannot pay more than one dollar a chapter for editor? Why also you have six editors?

Sorry if I sound vindictive, I just feel puzzled.

I feel like you didn;t read what i wrote. I pay my editor 5 Percent of my earnings, and i pay a line editor $2k.

So i pay about $2600 dollers in professinal services per month. The problem because of the speed i write at they are a few chapters behind.

I am looking for volutiers which i have about 8 already to help me get my work outfaster. In return im just giving them a little something back, people who just want to do this in thier free time or practise.

Quirklicious is the person i have actually commissioned for two covers. (he had a long wait list)
I don't have time to draw these days as i write about 8 to 9 hours a day.

So i picked a cover i thought suited my novel. My novel then in the meantime became very pouler fast which i wasn;t expecting

In return you're offering people basically 'exposure' for services that you pay a professional $2k a month for. Got it.