Originally Posted by
REG
Perhaps anyone living in the UK should inquire about an editing/proofreading job at Mongoose. Then again, who'd want to live with that kind of stressful pressure?
I've known people who've done proof-reading work for Mongoose. It's a pretty high-pressure job with very tight deadlines and low pay - presumably leading to a lack of attention? They have a similar reputation for house writers.
The schedule is all important to them.
Not something I'd want to deal with!
Spurred by the conversation, I finally got around to picking up the Earth Alliance book for B5 (which I've been working my way up to for months). After a thirty-minute read-through I spotted over a half-dozen typos, and a table sat in the middle of some explanatory text which disagreed with the examples next to it (the number of senators per nation if anyone wants to look)!
The main editing was also somewhat off: while there was a lovely section on the organisation of the ground forces; there was nothing equivalent on the fleet. And frankly, most of the national stereotypes provided (why?) were at least patronising (although as a Brit, maybe I'm a bit over-sensitive) - and some of them could be deemed offensive 
I'd say that was stuff that should have been caught early in the process.
Nice piccies though - and where it's good - it's very good.
Jon
"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea is asleep and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song.
Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do."
THE DOCTOR, "Survival" (Doctor Who)
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