And, many times, there are dozens of small mistakes within these manuscripts that could have been corrected so so sooooooo easily if the work had been read by a professional editor before it was published.

A case in point is this. Recently, I read a statement that said something like this: As a baby the author had to sleep in a chester drawers.

Huh?

Chester drawers?

Is that something I don’t know about, or did the person writing this mean chest of drawers?

Another manuscript I read recently had some dialogue between a man and his wife. The husband was trying to be cute and speak to his wife in French. He said something like this: “Well, mademoiselle, how are you?”

Okay. So maybe he WAS trying to make his wife feel young and attractive by referring to her as a SINGLE woman.

But, to me, this entire book would have been much more credible if the main character had referred to his wife as the married woman that she apparently was by saying it this way: “Well, madame, how are you?”

No big deal. This didn’t affect the story very much, if at all. Still, a professional editor would have easily changed this before the book ever made it to publication.

So here is the point of all my finger-pointing today.

It is well worth it to PAY to have a professional edit your manuscript if you are going to self-publish.

Don’t even think about it.

Just do it! Hire a professional editor.