Self-Editing for Self-Publishers (What to do before the real editor starts editing—or if you’re the only editor)

by Michael N. Marcus

Editing is an option for independent self-publishers and authors who use self-publishing companies. Editing can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Many authors, who have been enticed by ads promising "FREE" publishing or publishing packages priced as low as $199, simply have no budget for editing.While it's important to have your book edited by an experienced and knowledgeable pro, you may be your only editor.Therefore, this book has two To help you make your book as good as possible to minimize the work that has to be done by others, to keep the editing cost down.2. To help you make your book as good as possible if you will be the only editor.

143 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 10, 2013

About the author

Michael N. Marcus is the author of more than 40 books—including many bestsellers. He has been an editor at Rolling Stone magazine and has written for many science, music, business, electronics, automotive and general interest magazines, as well as newspapers.

​He's also an award-winning advertising copywriter who has worked on such brands as Pioneer, Acoustic Research, Columbia Records, Maxell, Volvo, Castrol, and Perdue chicken. Active on Facebook, Michael founded and administers over a dozen popular groups, and a few unpopular ones.

Michael has long been a successful and popular explainer. Before the Internet, he was an online adviser on CompuServe, and later on MSN. He is a contributor to many online groups and publications. He has provided the words for more than 50 websites and blogs.

At the urging of a misguided guidance counselor, he went to Lehigh University to become an electrical engineer, and was disappointed to learn that engineering was mostly math—and slide rules were not as much fun as soldering irons. He quickly switched to journalism.

Michael has written professionally for over 40 years. He was one of the first writers to humanize electronic hardware, describing equipment with emotion, not math. At Rolling Stone, his popular reviews of hi-fi equipment departed from the traditional laboratory tedium, and used humor and slices-of-life to describe the components. His novel approach came from necessity—because he didn't have a testing laboratory.
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Michael lives in Connecticut with his wife Marilyn, the ghost of Hunter the Golden Retriever, indoor and outdoor telephone booths, a "Lily Tomlin" switchboard, lots of books, CDs and DVDs, and many black boxes with flashing lights. Marilyn is very tolerant.









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