editors and editing

2011-02-19 There was a very comprehensive article in the Guardian the other day about the continuing demise of publishers' editors and editing.  A writer depends on another pair of eyes and an objective brain on the job, once the completed work is ready.  The impossibility of provding an editing service myself on this digital site as part of the submission fee means that writers have to be responsible for their own editing.  If they can't do it themselves, there are lots of good people who offer this service.  As a general rule, the work is put on the site as submitted.  It pains me if I know I'm uploading work that needs copy-editing.