"I Edit Smut.." Ali And Max Are Captivated By Caller's Unique Job!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, we want to find the person who's done the
weirdest job in Adelaide. Katie from Valley View, is that you?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yes? Possibly?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Okay, what do you do?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Well? So this is one of my current jobs.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
I edit smart as in films, as in rude stuff books.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
I edit romance levels.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yeah, okay, Katie, are you the people you know, like
the barbio books that you get from the op shops
and stuff, those sort of books.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh No, there's actually like a really huge industry of
like independently published romance novels at the moment. Like it's
all it's all modern, it's all new, it's like it's
got a decent plotline.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Okay, so what do you look for, Katie? What are
you editing out of?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah? What are you thinking?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well, so there are obviously certain scenes that I have
to make sure are realistic. So I've sort of got
to think about the mechanics of where people are at
any given time and make sure that it's, you know,
something that's actually possible. And then so making sure that
you know obviously that the regular boring editing stuff of
making sure the sentence structural that's fine too, but it's

(01:08):
like hang on a minute. Do you really want to
personify that of your body.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
At the moment?

Speaker 1 (01:14):
So, Katie, this is awesome because well, boys, I don't
know if you know, but Katie, it's fair to say
that women especially are the target market for this, right,
And I reckon I would be more turned on by
reading a really good sexy novel than watching anything. What
do you make being serious? Yes, watching reading a novel?
I do? Oh, Katie, am, I I'm not. That's right,

(01:37):
isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Girls?

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah, look you feel I guess you feel a bit
more like in the like you can want the actual
feelings for exactly. You can put yourself in the scenario
better if you've got it in front of you than
if you've got on a screen.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
That's right, Katie, I'm telling you, guys, in front of you.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Isn't that giving you everything that you want? To? Say?

Speaker 4 (01:54):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Because nine times out of ten I'm looking at that going, well,
I look nothing like her, Katie.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Do you ever get to like, I don't know, distracted?

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Is like?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Do you ever find yourself going this is very good
and I need a minute?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I occasionally have to read the scene a couple of times. Yeah,
to actually do the editing part of it.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
I love How the hell the heck did you get
this job?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
So I moved into academic editing. So I originally started
editing like THESS and journal articles and stuff that is,
so I'm also I'm also a fiction author.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I then transferred my skills to editing fiction.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Okay, Katie. So then is it like, do you get
to a book and go it has the pre you know,
the requisite number of hot moments, and this is hot
enough to be able to go into the romance section.
Is that kind of where you end up?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
No, because that's sort of up to the author.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
So, because it's almostly independently published, like people are going,
you know, I'm going to do this as my own job.
It's about making sure that what I like to say
is that the fiction parts are real enough to carry
the rest of it. So it's about going, okay, make
sure that it's publishable quality, and it's such to them
how much theme they put in it.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well, Katie sitting there in Valevue doing this and helping
us ladies out. I love it. I absolutely love it.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
And Katie, if you haven't need an apprentice, Alie Clark
has never been so interested in a call that we've
had on this show.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Generally think I could write one because I read all
those Fifty Shades and they were terrible.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Katie, you think you could write novel? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Did you like the Fifty Shades?

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Look, I haven't. I haven't read that. I have probably
read stuff that's a lot steamier than that.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Now, right, Katie's down the line. I'll just get a
few book reviews. You could do a book. We could
do a book club.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Book club, yes, Alie and Katie.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
So no one would be blowing that off and saying,
oh my kids sick.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
You'd be there everywhere. I didn't like the plotlight.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Thanks Katie, congratulations on this job. Wow,