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Reading a Writer's First Draft
This may fly in the face of what’s normally said about self-publishing, and even lose the site some credibility. People often implore writers to hire an editor to go through a book before releasing it. Of course, this makes sense and every writer should do it. But one of the major advantages of self-publishing is that it is a more democratic process: everyone can find readership and no one is boxed out of the opportunity. And given the high cost of hiring an editor, this cuts into one of self-publishing’s major advantages.
For a typical novel, the cost of hiring […]