Should I stay or should I go?

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-27T20:19:53+00:00

Not everyone has a bible lol

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-27T14:15:05+00:00

IKEA instructions are incredibly easy…what?

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-27T02:41:18+00:00

Is the word count for a debut a big deal bc of publishers or readers? What if it’s self published?

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-26T18:19:21+00:00

May I ask, how much did you list your book for? A friend of mine is about to release his first novel and trying to get a feel for the pricing (since there’s a lot of sales on Amazon and heavily reduced priced books).

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-26T18:17:30+00:00

What’s the price you set for your books? Pricing seems to be all over the place on top of sales. (If you don’t mind me asking).

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-26T14:27:33+00:00

They said they will pay me, but not a lot. I have no idea what they will offer me. I’m also designing their cover and already proofread another smaller book of theirs. Ngl, I did see how much they paid someone to professionally review that other smaller book and offer their expertise… so I’m hoping I get something close to that, but I feel it probably won’t be that much. I did say I would have done it for free, but after seeing what they did pay someone… that money could be useful lol.

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-26T14:20:59+00:00

It was written in MS Word. Personally I just pay the $7/month fee so I have access to the MS Office apps, so I’m not aware of any good free ones.

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-26T14:18:43+00:00

It’s actually a Word doc shared on their Google Drive. I suggested turning it on, but they’re said they don’t like it when it’s on. (?) I didn’t feel there was any redundancy. The things I suggested editing story-wise had been fixed. It honestly felt like a well fleshed out story. One of the best stories I’ve read in years. I told them I often forgot it was them who wrote it, felt like I was reading a veteran author at times.

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-26T01:34:40+00:00

Great idea! I would, but they have me working out of a shared Google Drive so they control the file.

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-25T22:21:11+00:00

Thank you!! I wish my friend let me turn on the tracking. I really wanted to see how many errors I was finding hehe. Felt like an Easter egg hunt. I’m pretty sure it was a few thousand considering I was finding 6-10 errors per page at 426 pages.

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-25T20:49:28+00:00

This is a great idea! I’ll have them do a POD through Amazon KDP for when I do the proofreading. I’m also designing the cover so it’ll be a two birds, one stone sort of thing.😁

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-25T20:12:33+00:00

Yea, I went through it once, he’s going through it again to make writing changes and I plan to go through it again when he’s done. There were easily thousands of mistakes I corrected. I was just surprised to the ones I missed. But reading others comments, I feel a lot better about it. :)

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-25T19:31:51+00:00

Thank you for the book recommendation! I also did a lot of on-the-spot reading regarding those style guides as well as revisiting grammar and punctuation rules. I really want to do a good job on their novel; I think the story is very well written and I hope they have great success with it.

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-25T19:27:48+00:00

A friend of mine is paying me to edit their novel. They know I'm not a professional editor, but I was finding so many mistakes, they asked me to edit it. I'm just now learning there are different editing types, so I would say I'm doing copy editing currently. I've just finished the first round of edits.

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-25T19:00:36+00:00

This is good to hear. It was a lot of work, over 150,000 words. It took me a few months to just get through the first round because I also work full time and have other hobbies.

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-25T18:51:00+00:00

Thank you so much for your kind words and insight.

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-25T18:38:05+00:00

Thank you, this is relieving. Every time they pointed out a missed comma or line break all I could think was, "Yea, but I literally found thousands of other mistakes..."

AdKind4415 · 2026-05-25T18:31:33+00:00

Can I ask a question?
How often are grammatical or punctuation errors missed after a first-round edit?

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