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Originally Posted by HarryT
Good points, certainly, but it would seem to indicate a lack of what one might call "professional awareness" on the part of most indie authors. Do you think that information about the importance of proper editing is simply not known to most authors, or just that 99.5% of authors think they're in the 0.5% who can self-edit?
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When I started my book I was in this group. I write a lot for the company I work for, and always got praise for my work. So I figured I could do the editing myself. I got lucky when I decided to have an editor friend of mine take a look at the book to see if any "tweaks" were needed.
I didn't expect much.
I was devastated when I got the book back and saw how many changes he made. Looked again and saw he was right on all the changes.
I would not publish a book again without a professional going through it.
Bob