Ron, you can get a very professional
edit as an indie publisher — just do your homework and search carefully, ask for testimonials or references, and ask exactly what they look for (don't settle for just spelling and grammar — there's so much more at stake), and get a sample edit, or a trial edit of the first 10 - 30 pages or so.
Not exact matches
Wow, you really are out of touch with the publishing industry if you think that
indie authors aren't investing
as much (if not more) money in getting their work
edited, covers designed etc that the larger
publishers put into their titles.
Then there are the websites whose sole purpose is dedicated to helping
Indie authors write,
edit, publish, and market their books
as well
as network and support other
Indie publishers.
Mrs. Prybylski has been in the publishing industry since 2010 and has worked for other
indie publishers as well
as having done private, freelance
editing on many books.
As a reader, I do expect
indie authors to do everything a
publisher does especially the
editing.
I second Vaughn's comment about
editing —
as both an
indie publisher and an editor, I think lack of
editing can not only cripple an
indie's first book but their «brand»
as well.
There are plenty of
Indie published books
edited by former editors from Big 5
publishers as well
as by other highly trained freelance professional editors, with the resulting works enhancing the author's reputation and possibly the sales of their next book.
Previously he ran the iconic
indie Soft Skull Press for which work he was awarded the Association of American
Publishers» Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing in 2005 — the last book he
edited there, Lydia Millet's Love in Infant Monkeys, was selected
as a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist.