Note: I shared this in the very popular 20Booksto50k author group back in 2019, and a lot of authors found it useful. I’m also sharing it here because these same issues keep coming up when I talk to authors or potential clients who have had bad editing experiences, and finding a post to point them to that is two years old in a very popular FB group is getting cumbersome. So, some of you may have read this before, but I it’s worth a review, and it’s good information to have.

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