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@Furthering Those two things - roles combining and work drying up - are probably due to AI, don't you think?
If you work in English, and have friends who are looking for work, I'm currently setting up my own anti-AI press - https://woodpigpress.com/call-for-publishing-freelancers-creatives-readers-and-reviewers/ - please feel free to share widely.
@Furthering Thank you. So, they ask you to do the proofreader's job? That's a bit naughty! May I ask what country that is?
I think the lines are blurring between a lot of these roles. When I do formatting for indie authors, I often end up doing a bit of proofreading (spotting typos, grammatical errors, etc). This is no substitute for a professional proofreader, as I tell them.
I'm a professional book formatter (among other things). This is a piece I wrote for indie authors about whether you should format your own book. If this applies to you, feel free to drop me a line to chat about it. It's a headache, I know!
https://garethsouthwell.substack.com/p/should-you-format-your-own-book
@mlanger @irina Well, I'm not suggesting that writers shouldn't learn about subject-verb disagreement, just that it's a basic thing that it might be useful for a machine to pick up on. I know the difference between "it's" and "its", but the number of the times I read back and find I've unconscioulsy used the wrong one is untold!
@mlanger @irina I think there's a grey area with grammar checkers. If it says, "there is subject-verb disagreement here", then it's really just an extension of the spellchecker. But if it says, "you need to rephrase this from the passive to the active voice, and here's how you do that", then it starts to move into editing. A human editor might do that, to an extent, but I think many how are using it are relying heavily on its suggestions, which is robbing them of their own voice.
@operationwatchtower The Course of the Heart is probably the closest to Lovecraft. He's very literary and a bit obscure at times, but worth it.
@operationwatchtower Well, we do trick or treat! But generally just remembering the departed.
@operationwatchtower Ah, Halloween, of course! 
Yes, reading the stories must have given living in NE a definite aura!
@operationwatchtower That's an interesting tradition! Any reason it's October? The HPL literary podcast is great fun - do you know it?
I'm ambivalent about HP Lovecraft. I read them all along with https://www.hppodcraft.com/about, which was great fun. Some stories are schlocky, there's the whole racist/right wing vibe, but the odd one really creeps you out. "From Beyond" did that for me.
Anyone else read HPL?