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Originally Posted by Russell Brooks
NO WAY! Not you too! I once had an editor that I paid quite a lot of money and although the editor found some general problems with italics and one or two problems with sentence structure, over 70% of the novel had numerous spelling errors, ones that should've been caught easily. That relationship was short-lived. And oh yes, LJ. I never have the same editor read my work twice. Someone that's familiar with the plot will tend to skip over mistakes.
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Which is exactly why authors should not attempt to edit or proof their own work.