Sentences with phrase «do hire a professional editor»

You revise and edit your book to the best of your ability or some authors do hire a professional editor beforehand.

Did you hire a professional editor to fix any grammar and / or spelling mistakes?

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This instance does show us that because of community bias, the community may not be a perfect tool for editorial control, but does this allow us to make the case for having professional (hired) editors / moderators on socially driven news sites?»

Rebecca, I just finished editing my inspirational book, and hired professional editing services, and though they are not copy editors, he did question the content of several paragraphs and made suggestions as to the changes that were needed for more clarity.

Do not make the mistake of many self - publishing authors who hire a professional editor but then have their book designed by a family member with little or no book experience.

I would recommend using at least one of these, especially if you have friends and family do your editing, but even if you hire a professional editor.

If you can afford to hire a professional editor — or two — do so.

You should do at least two to three revisions on your own before hiring a professional editor — don't bring in a professional until you have made the book the best you possibly can on your own.

(Of course, another good option to hire a professional editor — but do your due diligence first.)

Some authors who do not have the funds to hire professional editors may only have this option available to them.

The bottom line: if you can't afford to hire a professional editor you don't have the right to publish.

I hadn't hired a professional editor for my first two books, but I didn't have the heart to take them completely off the market.

And that's pretty much how the rest of my night goes, with me lying in bed, challenging imaginary authors everywhere who don't see the need to hire a professional editor, asking them more questions than you'd like to hear.

It was easier than you might think to self - publish and I did it in a professional manner, hiring an editor and graphic artist, which doesn't mean it wasn't a bumpy ride.

This is certainly true when it comes to hiring a professional editor versus doing it yourself.

Once the professional editor or editors (you may need more than one) complete their work and you make the changes they suggest, you will then again says, Done,» and go on to hire a professional proofreader.

She planned to stick her book up on Kindle and didn't understand my advice to hire a professional editor.

If you don't know anyone who can help, you might consider hiring a professional editor.

What that might look like, practically speaking, is that you hire a professional editor for your novel, you pay a cover designer to create a quality cover for your book, and you pay an accountant to do your taxes.

I also knew that I would be crazy if I didn't pay out for a great looking cover, and hire an editor who wasn't just a person who liked books or my Mum — but a professional editor.

I did not hire a professional editor to edit my book.

No, I did not hire a professional editor this time.

Still, the agent did motivate me to become more professional: I hired a developmental editor for my third book, The Last Firewall, which came out in August 2013.

From the type of work you choose to write to the cover you choose for your eBook, from hiring a professional editor to proofreading and mechanically editing the eBook to ensure the highest quality, you will not succeed in the industry, even in these trending niches, if you don't put forth your best effort.

If I ever finish my draft, then my revisions, then my fine toothed combings, I plan to hire a professional editor, not because I expect the professional editing is going to make me famous and sell lots of copies, it's because I don't want the embarrassment of putting out a crappy product.

Karl Bunker presents Do you need to hire a professional editor?

You can hire a professional editor who does all the work for you including developmental editing, content editing, copyediting.

I've hired a professional editor, and just need to save up enough money to actually have her do her job.

If I didn't, I could hire one professional editor to go through the whole manuscript.

Or the money to hire a freelance editor, graphic artist, and other professionals the way a larger publisher would have done.

Of course, hiring a professional editor does come with a price tag, and most freelancers calculate their costs based on the number of words.

Again, if you need to hire a professional designer to create your book's cover art for you, do so, and if you have an editor working for you, make sure he edits your book title too.

Why don't they realize that when people feel that the price of an ebook is too high that they will buy a used print book instead? I suspect that very soon most authors will self - publish ebooks and hire the professionals they need, like editors, to help them.

Hiring a professional editor, getting a beautiful cover designed (because despite what we like to believe, we do judge a book by its cover) and even basic marketing expenses can run into quite a bit.

Too many self - published authors don't bother to hire a good developmental editor or professional cover designer.

I'll do it for large sums of money, though I think Anthony would be better advised to hire a very old - fashioned professional editor.