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Originally Posted by teh603
Investment or not, how are people expected to pay a professional editor if they're on a shoestring budget and have no guarantee of a meaningful return on it? You also have to factor in that a decent cover isn't cheap either and a lot of artists get snippy if you want all the rights. That's up to a thousand bucks for an ebook that might not get any return at all. I don't count something as an investment unless it guarantees *some* return- which I know is odd in these days of market trader capitalism.
When you make less than 8k a year, things go from "maximum risk hoping for maximum return" to "how can I string everything out as far as I can and minimize waste."
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I'd say, rather, that the question is, "what kind of finished product do you want to put your name on?"
If you can't afford to pay someone to read over your work, tighten it up, point out grammatical and spelling mistakes and turn it into the most readable version possible, then you are being penny-wise and pound-foolish. Sure, you can do your own editing but if what you publish turns out to be a piece of unreadable crap, then your name is always going to be associated with unreadable crap and you'll never rise in either sales or popularity. You've slit your own throat.
And if you're making only 8K a year, then surviving should have a higher priority than writing, anyway.
