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Originally Posted by ApK
If you can't afford a professional editor (which is a reasonable situation to assume for a new, self-publishing writer) then you can see if a local college English class will help you out, or even try crowd-sourced editing (hey, even Wikipedia-esque quality is better than nothing!) like David Kitson did here on MR with "Turing Evolved."
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Wow! Totally off topic but I nearly dropped my OJ when I read this. A few months ago I was putting a bunch of free indie titles by authors I'd never heard of on my Kindle. I put "Turning Evolved" on there because I noticed it had thirty or so reviews and a 4.5star rating. I actually read that one too. It was a decent read--decent enough that I actually read it all the way through (although not decent enough for me to be interested in the author's other work).
The point is that I stumbled across it purely through Amazon's systems of reviews and "buyer" tracking. So, in that case, the "free" concept worked out and nabbed a reader. If it was $.99 I wouldn't have bought or read it. If, however, the book was recommended by a credible source I would have had no problem paying $15 for it.
I suggest the author of "Turning Evolved" do some serious SEO optimization for that title though. I Googled it to make sure it was the one I had actually read and it didn't show up in any stores even when I put quotes around the title. I had to go to Amazon and use the search there. Oddly enough, Amazon's buy page didn't even show up at all in the Google search results... Don't know what's up with that.