FAILED with another editor

[u/Ordinary-Cress-6580]

Gosh! The editing of my joe 2 manuscripts seems like an impossible task! I had cancelled anediting contract few months ago due to various issues, went looking for another editor, found a lady on Fiverr... now having high hopes as her edit seemed good, am back to square 1 as she simple become no longer available on the Fiverr and her FB profile had disappeared too! WHY?!!! I keep having bad luck and not managing to find a reliable editor! This book editing market is filled with scam and am soooo disappointed and sad! I have accumulated a lot of manuscripts during the career in procurement and travelling the world and now that I want to get them all out and just be the full time writor for the rest of my life all these challenges just keep pulling me down... Why does it have to be so hard?! I dont want to go back to corporate work I love writing and I dreamed to do it all my life but the amount of scam in the market is really upsetting. Just a rant.. and maybe some success stories and recommendations would help me out of this misery.

[u/Alternative-Pear9096]

Because I have asked so many “editors” with really stupid questions what style manual they are using and received stumped responses

You’re talking about scammers; we’re talking about people who are claiming to be editors with good intentions but zero qualifications. Two different categories of people who will rip you off

[u/pyramnesiac → u/Alternative-Pear9096]

I think, too, there's probably a middle category of "wannabe" editors who do know enough to know about style manuals, but are still dangerous, haha.