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Originally Posted by moonshot
Would you rather be in a 'category' of author with a professionally edited book for sale, which you have, or the category of 'those who have typed a few hundred pages of unedited words and uploaded it to Amazon' and want the status of author.
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'Author' is not a 'status'. It's a simple statement of fact: Books have authors, so a person who writes a book is an author. 'Best-selling author' is a status, 'Award-winning author' is a status, 'Highly-regarded author' is a status. The word 'author' implies none of these.