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I'm neither a writer nor an editor, just a reader. As a reader, I really, really appreciate an author making the effort to have his/her story presented as professionally as possible.
I'm reading a self-published book right now. The plot and characters are enough to keep me reading but every page may be the last I wade through. I don't know if the author didn't do much review or thought self-editing was sufficient. Maybe sometimes it is but self-editing won't do you any good if you don't know that, for instance, in English the phrase "he was excited about finding it" is correct but "he was excited for finding it" is not.
Every instance of something like that jolts me out of the story and back into my middle-aged crankiness about language mutilation. One of those jolts may be the one that makes me just give up and there goes the author's revenue from a potential sale of the rest of the series.
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