Erotica Editors Needed

afterdarkqt

Registered
Joined
Feb 14, 2005
Messages
12
Reaction score
1
Location
Northeast U.S.A.
Website
www.aphroditeunlaced.com
I hope this is the appropriate place for this request, apologies in advance if there is a better forum!

Aphrodite Unlaced, Inc. needs (non-paying position but with certain perks) editors for their expanding Erotic Romance catalog.

These works would be definite erotica and we need people who can embrace the vocabulary and graphic descriptions and dialogue that are involved.

If anyone is interested, and has a comfort level with erotic works, please send an email to [email protected] with "Editor Openings" in the subject line for further details and communication.

Thank-you!
Aphrodite Unlaced
www.aphroditeunlaced.com
 
Maryn

Maryn

I Tried
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Feb 12, 2005
Messages
64,154
Reaction score
43,172
Location
Behind you!
I'm not sure I want to work for free without having a more solid idea what the nature of the perks might be. If it's just that I get to read (and edit) erotica, that's not going to be enough, even though I'm qualified and might find it very pleasant work.

Can you be more specific?

Maryn, curiouser and curiouser
 
veinglory

veinglory

volitare nequeo
Self-Ban
Registered
Joined
Feb 12, 2005
Messages
28,750
Reaction score
2,937
Location
right here
Website
www.veinglory.com
I think the point is that it being non-specific means no email from a lot of people. I mean why should the matter be confidential?

I am surprised that several epublishers do seem to manage to secure editors without monetary pay.
 
Susan Gable

Susan Gable

Dreamer of dreams, teller of tales
Absolute Sage
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Feb 12, 2005
Messages
3,110
Reaction score
755
Location
Pennsylvania
Website
www.susangable.com
veinglory said:
I think the point is that it being non-specific means no email from a lot of people. I mean why should the matter be confidential?

I am surprised that several epublishers do seem to manage to secure editors without monetary pay.
Click to expand...

Crazy people! Working for no pay is crazy!

I work, I wanna get paid. Cause the funny thing is, my electric company wants to get paid, my grocery store wants to get paid, my car repair shop and insurance company want to get paid...

Susan G. - will work for pay. :)
 
veinglory

veinglory

volitare nequeo
Self-Ban
Registered
Joined
Feb 12, 2005
Messages
28,750
Reaction score
2,937
Location
right here
Website
www.veinglory.com
Maybe moving editing (proofreading surely?) to the royalty system at some epresses was the beginning of the slippery slope. My guess is that you get paid in ebooks?
 
Maryn

Maryn

I Tried
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Feb 12, 2005
Messages
64,154
Reaction score
43,172
Location
Behind you!
My utility company does not accept erotica ebooks as payment. Go figure, huh?

Frankly, the secrecy about what perks you get when doing a professional-quality editing job, for which a paycheck is the norm, is a huge red flag. If it were a fair deal, there'd be no reason to keep it hush-hush.

Maryn, willing to get screwed literally but not figuratively
 
Last edited:

MargueriteMing

Super Member
Registered
Joined
Nov 26, 2006
Messages
1,462
Reaction score
87
Location
Hidebound Midwest
To put it another way, less tongue-in-cheek, as it were:

Why would a professional quality editor work for free, when they can spend their time earning a living? In fact, if they are a professional then they are probably already obligated to spending their time for their employer. If they aren't professional quality, why would you want them to edit your stuff?
 
Maryn

Maryn

I Tried
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Feb 12, 2005
Messages
64,154
Reaction score
43,172
Location
Behind you!
[Maryn busies hereself by taking twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was...]

Maryn, channeling Arlo
 
MarkEsq

MarkEsq

Clever title pending.
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Feb 26, 2005
Messages
3,711
Reaction score
1,139
Age
59
Location
In the wilds of Texas. Actually, the liberal oasi
Maryn said:
[Maryn busies hereself by taking twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was...]

Maryn, channeling Arlo
Click to expand...

Hey, I get that reference! Ever year we used to hole up, my folks and siblings and me, in a snowy locale with no tv and only an old record player, reading, laughing, listening to music while drinking hot choccy (and, in later years, kirsch). That was one we listened to, and sang along with, for a decade. Thanks for the memory. :)
 
Uncarved

Uncarved

I aim to misbehave
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Feb 12, 2005
Messages
1,848
Reaction score
512
Location
Georgia
I haven't received a reply from them to find out what the special perks are.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.