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Should You Pay to Submit Your Work?
Am I being cheap to resent paying $3 to submit to a market that only accepts 1% of the submissions received? What do you think of markets that charge to submit? This question was recently posted in a Facebook group for fiction writers and editors. The responses were both swift and…
The Hidden Price of Amateur Editing
“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.” Most of us have heard this saying before, but until we experience it for ourselves, we don’t truly understand what it means. I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve had my own experiences with giving in to the…
The Cost of NOT Editing
Self-publishing can be a cost-effective way to get your work out into the world. Setting up a title on CreateSpace and then selling it both digitally and in hard copy through Amazon is free. The allure of publishing without jumping through the difficult hoops of query letters and book proposals and agents is…
The Cost of Editing
This afternoon, I received an invitation to submit a proposal for a job posted on Elance, one of the freelancer sites where I sometimes bid for editorial work. Here’s the job description: I have a 35,000 word eBook that needs to be proofread for grammatical errors, spelling errors, edited and copy edited…