Book Royalties

[Kragen Sitaker]

Paul Rubin <phr-n2002a at nightsong.com> writes:
> Kragen Sitaker <kragen at pobox.com> writes:
> > I have a question.  How can a self-publisher find a decent editor and
> > indexer?  Those are fairly specialized skills, and the editors and
> > indexers used by most of the books I've liked in the past are
> > employees of book publishers, so I don't expect that they are
> > available for freelance work --- right?
> 
> I don't know about indexing but there's bazillions of freelance
> editors out there hungry for work.

How do you know which ones are any good?