https://booksbywomen.org/ten-reasons-why-you-need-an-editor-by-carol-m-cram/ Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:06:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://booksbywomen.org/ten-reasons-why-you-need-an-editor-by-carol-m-cram/#comment-49047 Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:06:17 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=21737#comment-49047 You are absolutely right about needing an editor/ a team of editors and reading and re-reading and even then it’s likely you’ll miss something. My book was well edited and looks good BUT as I’m getting it ready to become an audiobook I found a major error (my own) with a date that I didn’t pick up on until I listened to the narrator and heard the discrepancy in two parts of the book. I also heard repetitive words used that weren’t picked up on in the reading but in listening, I could definitely hear … it’s interesting that no one has picked up on the errors (or said anything about them … but they are there and I know it … they won’t be in the audiobook, and will be corrected in the e-book and future printings but yes, editing is important!

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/ten-reasons-why-you-need-an-editor-by-carol-m-cram/#comment-49022 Thu, 08 Feb 2018 18:01:41 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=21737#comment-49022 […] When we’re done writing, we need to clean up our manuscript. Jessi Rita Hoffman has hedge words and inflation words to beware of, Elisa Beatty tells us how to get tight without losing any of the story, Jami Gold examines how to improve our editing processes, and Carol Cram lists ten reasons why you need an editor. […]

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