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Originally Posted by HarryT
Editing is a professional skill, which is completely different to the skill of writing. If you don't get your book professionally edited, it's probably going to look as though it was done by an amateur. I would ask whether, if you consider yourself to be a professional author, you can afford not to use a professional editor. If you don't do so, you're not presenting your work to its best advantage.
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I know this is one of your pet topics Harry, but it's not that cut and dried for a lot of people. A lot of what I write is Historical Fact and I'm lucky to have a friend who is a Professor of Etymology at Durham University, who edits and proofs all my work. I have another friend who is a History Lecturer who corrects any dialect or chronology errors. A fiction writer wouldn't necessarily need such intense levels of editing, so why shouldn't their mother or neighbour or school teacher or anyone literate enough to string two words together, be able to proof and/or edit their work?