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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Do you honestly think a serious publishing house would trust an author with layout and formatting? We can't even trust him to use good grammar, construct his story and characters properly or even spell his title without an error.
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The more comments like this I see about the publishing industry, the more I love the fanfiction communities that encourage beta readers.
I've read excerpts of self-published works at Smashwords & a few other places, and I'm often appalled at them--I keep thinking, "you could've run this past *one* other person, who could've caught all those your/you're problems, and told you when you switched tenses every third paragraph, and would've chopped that long chapter into two. Oh, and someone should've told you that the Golden Gate Bridge doesn't connect to Oakland."