Writers hire editors who have the time and expertise to do for their manuscripts what they can not do for themselves.
Even editors who are also
writers hire editors.
Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro uses three editors so why shouldn't self - pub
writers hire an editor?
There are a couple of things that are happening that point to this —
writers hiring editors, for instance, and publishing online, and selling ebooks for fun, all of which I've been seeing over the past 4 years or so.
Not exact matches
Reuters tried to create a web - based media operation too, spending millions to
hire writers and
editors and investing tens of millions in a new content system — and then a new CEO pulled the plug, saying the returns didn't justify the investment.
For the first year and a half, Hardwick ran the blog alone, doing all the coding, writing and photoshopping himself, until, awash in TV work, he had to
hire writers and an
editor to help keep the content fresh.
As someone who's
hired and managed
writers and
editors, I heartily support this line of reasoning.
For example, you could
hire freelance
writers and an
editor from sites like Elance to write content for your company blog.
Late last year, Fusion seemed full of promise: the company was
hiring a number of leading
writers and
editors, such as former Atlantic
editor Alexis Madrigal and former Reuters
writer Felix Salmon, and was spending fairly large sums of money in order to do so.
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Jeffery Goldberg,
editor - in - chief at The Atlantic, says the publication is committed to having a diverse stable of
writers (part of what motivated him to
hire Williamson), but Williamson's remarks were «callous and violent.
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If you've never
hired a copy
editor, ask for references or get recommendations from fellow
writers.
Their work has been critiqued by other
writers, combed over by a
hired editor errors, has a cover designed by a graphic artist, and has been e-book formatted either by a professional, or with a program like Scrivener.
Secondly, I believe that there is a lot of crap in self - publishing, due to lazy, sloppy
writers who want to call themselves an author but don't bother to learn the craft first and don't begin to understand the marketing value of
hiring an
editor before you subject the world to your tome.
An Indie
writer has his group of beta - reader,
hires his proofreader, works with an
editor and is in the black if his book is good.
The only costs associated with self publishing are for cover art (DO
hire a cover artist),
editors (if you aren't friends with other
writers who do this well), and formatting (if you fall into the realm of the apparently mostly middle aged men who won't read or ask for directions on how to do it yourself).
And yes, you're also correct that a
writer can (and in my opinion should)
hire editors and designers directly.
I'm enthusiastic about educating authors on the value of
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Writers hire designers,
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I see many self - published
writers who blame bad reviews on a
hired editor.
In one of the Facebook
writers groups I belong to, a new author asked if anyone thought it was truly important to
hire an
editor before publishing.
Yes, self - published
writers absolutely need to
hire editors.
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I'm Laura Roberts, and I'm a San Diego - based freelance
writer and
editor for
hire.
If you're a
writer now, and you take your writing seriously, you should
hire an
editor, no questions asked.
Visit my blog for ideas about writing and tips for
hiring a professional
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writer for your needs.
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If you just want to
hire me as an
editor, the blog serves as a free resource you can visit as often as you want in order to understand my stance on important issues
writers face.
To avoid becoming one of these
writers,
hire a proofreader (AFTER your copy
editor is finished with your work) to polish and perfect every sentence.
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After your beta readers are done, and if at least one of them isn't a highly critical reader /
writer,
hire a freelance
editor to, at the very minimum, copy edit the book.
We offer discounts to
writers who receive a manuscript assessment and wish to
hire an
editor for copy editing or proofreading as an additional service.
If you're an indie
writer who has
hired an
editor, your challenge then is to parse out the valid critiques of your own writing from the notes that might, just might, reflect only the
editor's dislike of your voice, or ignorance of your story's milieu, or inability to grok your sense of humor.
In order to facilitate this he has
hired a «chief content curator» and dozens of
editors and long - form
writers to help turn its site into a digital magazine.
What a lot of ebook
writers will learn the hard way is that they need to
hire an
editor who can advise them on substantive issues, not just a copy
editor or proofreader.
Self - published authors can
hire freelance
editors to comb their books for typos and grammatical mistakes, but when it comes to structural editing — telling the author the third quarter of a novel is too windy or insisting that the current ending needs to be tossed out entirely and redone, things no
writer likes to hear but some
writers need to — an
editor - for -
hire is much less motivated to displease her client even when demanding major rewrites would make for a better book.
Some
writers want to write books and connect with readers without having to
hire teams of
editors, designers, etc with all of the expenses coming out of the
writer's pocket.
It's my understanding that a developmental
editor is
hired to read your manuscript and help the
writer to «boost it — take it up a few notches so that the story captivates it readers.
More and more
writers are
hiring their own developmental
editors, whether they plan to self - publish their book or hope to land a literary agent and go for a book deal with a traditional publisher.
So, they can
hire virtual assistants, multiple freelance
writers, cover designers, and
editors.
I think that
writers who want self - published books to be regarded as a reputable genre need to hold themselves to the highest standards and
hire a professional
editor to assist them.
However, as a
writer, I would still
hire an
editor myself.
In fact, the largest number of editorial horror stories I've heard have come from not from
writers at big and medium - sized publishers, but from unpublished or self - published
writers who
hired less - than - qualified independent
editors (there are a lot of them out there), or from small press authors whose inexperienced publishers employed
editors without the proper professional skills.
In part because many
writers hire freelance
editors themselves.)
They must rely on beta readers, other
writers in groups, and professional «
hired gun» freelance
editors to help them identify and develop the potential in their work.