Nick Mamatas, in his characteristic, inimitable manner, shreds a Washington Post article on self-publishing.

Here’s another bit of almost good advice: “Hiring an editor isn’t a bad idea; you can post ads on Craiglist.com, Copyeditor.com or local job boards (ask for references, and try out prospects with a few pages first).” Ah yes, you know what kind of editors hang out on craigslist? Me. The first thing I tell folks is that I charge a penny a word. The second thing is not to self-publish. I’ve found that there are very few people willing to pay $800-$1000 for a manuscript dripping with a red ink and an editorial letter that boils down to “Shred this and start over, but in English.”

Ah, what a sweet, sweet dream. I could work a week every other month and still make more than my day job pays me now.

 . . . I’ll leave aside, for now, the massive difference between editing as it actually exists and editing as the average craigslister conceives of it, which involves “checking for typos.” Or, to speak the native language of CL, “typo's.” That ' isn't an apostrophe, it’s a glottal click.