Thread by @CKnightWrites

The utter lack of respect for self-published authors here would piss me off anyway.

But from an editor?? This is a mess.

What if we acknowledged that most editors are unaffordable for most self-pub authors and respect that those authors are doing the best they can as-is?

What if we uplift and actually support self published authors instead of calling their work utter garbage and shitty? What if??

And that snarky af follow up when someone called Borbala out for claiming to be "kind and neutral."

An editor. I'm fuming.

And then the LIES. Said that those stories should be rejected from Amazon by those "editors" - not that they should be edited by those editors, not that the writer should get any support. Rejected and removed. Like the garbage Borbala believes those books are.

The bad takes are not limited to this, btw. THIS, this is gross.

Borbala blocked me awhile back, got mad when I screenshot a bad take before it could be deleted. We're clearly not cool. But idk how anyone is cool with this shit.

"It's gross to watch porn but I'll make money writing about sex."

"It's gross to watch gay porn but I'll make money writing about it."

"Gay sex is gross but I write about it."

There is literally no way to shake this that it's not AWFUL.

Please think about the fact that Borbala would charge you $950 for line and copy edits on a 50k word novel - fairly standard industry rates.

And if you cannot afford that, she'd like someone to reject your work as trash.

She's not going to help, mind you. Just know youre trash.

SURPRISE Borbala is super ableist too! You're not just trash if you can't afford an editor, you're LAZY if you can't edit your own work to her standards of quality 🙃

I dont think I could be more offended that I share a profession with this person who so obviously hates writers.

"Making it so their sentences...don't sound like a 3rd grader wrote them is not a barrier."

Congratulations if you're neurodivergent, disabled, not educated in America to a high school level at least, or don't speak English as your first/primary language - you have no barriers!