When you hire an editor for your book manuscript, do you allow her to do her job? <\/p>\n
Generally, you will turn your manuscript over to an editor after you have done a thorough self-editing. S\/he will correct mistakes such as the misuse of words, punctuation errors and misspelled words. S\/he will make suggestions in the area of repeated words, run-on sentences, capitalization questions, continuity\/flow of the story, inconsistencies in the story, organization of the material and so forth. If your editor is like me, s\/he will teach as s\/he edits\u2014noting why s\/he is making certain suggestions. <\/p>\n
Then s\/he will turn your manuscript back to you. You can either accept or reject her suggestions. You can make changes and do some rewriting (some of it your editor has recommended). But after you do this, especially if it is extensive, you really should let your editor go over your manuscript one more time. S\/he should do the final edit. S\/he should have the opportunity to look over your changes and comment on them. It could be that you incorporated some of your bad writing habits into the new paragraph or you interrupted the continuity of your story, for example. Your editor will discover any new problems.<\/p>\n
And, if your changes were not extensive, you may not have to pay the editor to read the entire manuscript again. Highlight those areas that you changed on your own and ask her to charge you only for editing those. Keep in mind that she may have to spend more time doing this than you imagine when s\/he\u2019s editing for continuity and consistency. <\/p>\n
As editors, we are gleefully pleased when our authors acknowledge us in their completed book. But, as you can imagine, it can be an embarrassment and, possibly a black mark on our reputations, when the author writes over our edits to an extent that negates our editing work.<\/p>\n
So my message today is\u2014definitely hire a good, recommended editor for your project. Let her do her job by allowing her to see and okay the final draft before putting her name on your book.<\/p>\n
For more about using an editor and self-editing, read my book, The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book<\/em><\/strong>. I\u2019m getting quite a few orders for this book from Amazon, lately. Would rather that you order it from me\u2014it costs me money to sell it to you through Amazon, would you believe\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you hire an editor for your book manuscript, do you allow her to do her job? Generally, you will turn your manuscript over to an editor after you have done a thorough self-editing. S\/he will correct mistakes such as the misuse of words, punctuation errors and misspelled words. S\/he will make suggestions in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
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