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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Let me go find a dozen more self-published books.
Oh wait, I don't want your job.
And I would never look down on you.
I noticed one author made a standard but my budget can't afford editing. Now he/she may be good, but I would ask why are you hurting yourself by putting out "not ready for primetime" books.
First impressions are lasting.
So to any poor authors that are reading this: save your pennies, work at a menial job, quit any bad habits or vices, and remember this is your career we are talking about. If your first book is crap, readers won't bother with a second.
Buying books is a luxury not a necessity. (Ok yes, I know some of us need books, but that doesn't mean we will waste our money on bad books.)
So avoid the bad reputation and be professional.
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I'm with you there. And while we're at it: they don't even have to pay an editor, if they are simply willing to invest a little time and effort. First, they can buy Brown and King on Self-Editing:
http://www.amazon.com/Self-Editing-F...dp/0060545690/ . Second, they can act like real-grown-up writers, and JOIN a BLOODY CRITIQUE GROUP. Spend some time trading critiques with other writers; read their crap out loud, and suffer the slings and arrows of other writers' input.
To my mind, the single biggest loss in self-pubbing is the omission of a critique group and/or writing group. It's a writer's rite of passage (along with all the OTHER things that self-pubbing omits: writer's courses, seminars, etc.) and it also provides a TON of editorial polishing that you only get by rubbing up against the coarse edges of other people's opinions.
Oh, well.
Hitch