I love fantasy and sci fi. I've been reading books in these two genres from big publishers, small publishers, and the occasional self pub. I've self pubbed in the genre myself and worked with editors.
In the last few months I've noticed a decline in the speculative fiction, especially fantasy books, I've picked up. I've had to dnf several books because the writing is soo bad. The plot and world building might be fine, but the editing is terrible, and these are traditionally published books. Sometimes smaller houses, but still. I mentioned that I've worked with editors as a writer because the kinds of issues I'm seeing are basic stuff any editor should catch. The book I'm reading now has new paragraphs being started in the middle of a sentence. Or a sentence fragment ending ,. Like that. My biggest pet peve is time not making sense. Things that clearly took days to happen being described as happening in a few hours. I have not worked with expensive editors. Just editors a self pub author could afford. And they would have caught these problems.
Has anyone else noticed this? As I wrote this I realized there's a chance this could be AI in the editing process?
by curiousdoodler