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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
'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.
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Then it would be a good idea to somehow separate the 'author' who has spent some extra time, effort and money to get their book professionally edited etc. as typatterson67 did from the 'author' who has typed a few hundred pages and clicked it up to Amazon and stuck a price tag on it.