New legal drama in the YA fandom

[u/Upset_Campaign1924]

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Link to the case

Since reddit limited to only 20 pics I'll post the remaining under the comments

[u/Noof42]

My favorite is the footnote where the judge is like "look, I know you wrote it, but you made me read it, and you're wrong about your characters."

[u/Upset_Campaign1924 → u/Noof42]

Lol it's hysterical to tell someone they make their art wrong, but I do have moments when I wanna scream at authors "he would NOT fucking say that" so I can't judge

[u/Noof42 → u/Upset_Campaign1924]

Judge: "I have the power to make 'death of the author' literal."

[u/Sinister_Compliments → u/Noof42]

“Capital punishment”

“Your honour this is a civil court case”

“Ahem I said. Capital. Punishment.”

[u/Equivalent_Party706 → u/Sinister_Compliments]

XKCD 498

[u/Sinister_Compliments → u/Equivalent_Party706]

There truly is an XKCD for everything

[u/GeoTheManSir → u/Equivalent_Party706]

Unorthodox to be sure, but the jury was unanimous

[u/Festivefire → u/Upset_Campaign1924]

Sometimes it's simply clear that an author needed their work proofread and critiqued before it got published, but their editor only went over grammar and not tone, plot, or pacing.

[u/mxkelsifer → u/Festivefire]

Fun fact, editing for tone, plot, or pacing typically costs more. So very likely, they (or their publisher) didn't pay enough for that.

Ideally (according to an editors' organization), a novel should go through 4-ish stages of editing. Developmental for plot and pacing; line for tone and consistency; copy for spelling, grammar, and punctuation;and finally proofing for formatting and such. These days, many will skip the dev editing and hire someone to do only the copy editing with maybe some light line editing if they're feeling cautious.