The Anthology Game

Sometime in the in the next few months two (maybe three) of my stories will be coming out in anthologies. In two cases I am intimately involved in the production of the books. Why do I keep volunteering for these things?
Fish Nets required the most work. I was the touch point between the writers and the editor. When everything was set, I put the manuscript together and sent it off. I didn't have anything to do with the publisher, so no contracts, no Okaying the cover, no marketing plan.
For Death Knell V, I agreed to do the set up for the publisher. I put the stories in order and made the formatting uniform throughout. It is amazing how many different ways an author can format a story and still be well within the guidelines.
There are four different ways to indicate a paragraph breaks. There are endless numbers of fonts. I was taught to use a double space after a period, but that is passé, so I had to take one space out at the end of each sentence.
I had done all this before but not at the same time for both anthologies.
If I survive this, I may never work on another anthology. But the rainbow at the end is more published stories.