Um…no thanks.
Published by Deanna Hoak November 20th, 2007 in blog, copyeditingI got the funniest e-mail ever through my contact page today:
Hi Deanna,
Hope you are doing great.
This is [name redacted] from Delhi, representing a company, which provides publishing service to Education and magazine publishers, including Sage, Pearson,
Elsevier, Taylor and Francis.May I propose you to outsource your all work so that we can work for each other for mutual benefits.
Best Regards,
[name redacted]
Edit and Create.
(Book Designing, Graphics, Illustrations, Typesetting, Copy Editing, Book Writing)
Uh-huh. Yeah, there are reasons I never outsource my work. :-)
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I'm a freelance copyeditor specializing in fantasy and science fiction. SF/F novels I have copyedited have been finalists for (and have sometimes won) the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, Golden Spur, John W. Campbell Memorial, Quill, Locus, Philip K. Dick, British Science Fiction, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy awards. In 2007 I was short-listed for a World Fantasy Award for my copyediting.
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Woo hoo! Elsevier represent! You should email me and tell me which company it is. I’d love to know! :)
I got a similar message myself a while ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the same person.
Aren’t you kind of doing outsourced work? That used to be done in-house at publishing companies? It adds amusement to the idea, somehow.
And thank goodness you don’t. There are enough books out there that someone as good as you didn’t copyedit already.
Ah, if only we could email all our files to someone in Mumbai who would do them for $2/hr., we could sit sipping mojitos all day long and just spend an hour every now and then trafficking the files, while reaping the lion’s share of the profits. We could take on far more jobs than we could personally handle, make tons of money, and retire to the Costa del Sol.
I keep trying to figure out a way to ruthlessly exploit Third World workers, but I just haven’t been able to come up with a scheme that doesn’t involve me doing all the work anyway.