First, your neighbor/best friend/Aunt Thelma may spell great, but do they know all the rules of punctuation and style? I doubt it. You might think you don’t need an editor, because your next door neighbor/best friend/Aunt Thelma offered to do it for free, or because you’ve read and re-read your manuscript a hundred times and just know it’s perfect. Many, if not all, of them could be avoided by having a professional edit your manuscript before submitting it to your publisher, or putting it up on Smashwords or Kindle if you ePublish on your own. You can find Smoky and her three blogs at Smoky writes:Īs an editor and as an avid reader, I see a lot of mistakes make their way into print. She is also author of Observations of an Earth Mage, a photo/essay collection and two books about writing. Smoky Trudeau Zeidel is the author of two novels, On the Choptank Shores and The Cabin. It’s Weird Being the Same Age as Old People.I Love You, I'm Sorry, Please Forgive Me, Thank You.The Five Major Challenges We Face During the Second Year of Grief.Meeting the Challenges of the Third Year of Grief.The Joy - and Heartbreak - of Gardening.Pat Bertram is the author of Grief: The Inside Story – A Guide to Surviving the Loss of a Loved One and Grief: The Great Yearning, “an exquisite book, wrenching to read, and at the same time full of profound truths.” Bertram is also the author of the suspense novels Unfinished, Madame ZeeZee’s Nightmare, Light Bringer, Daughter Am I, More Deaths Than One, and A Spark of Heavenly Fire.
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