Author JL Callison
"I am blessed in that my wife is my chief editor, which saves me many dollars (well spent if you aren't married to an editor). Some think they can stint on editing, but next to a good cover, editing is the most important part of the writing process. It does no good to write an engaging story if the writing is not easily readable without grammatical mistakes and typos throughout."
A.M. Rycroft
"Writing a novel typically takes me six months from beginning to end these days. Editing runs in the thousands for my novels, because my editor provides a combination of content, copy, and line editing for my books. It's hard to estimate how much I've spent on marketing and book events, but I'd say that's close to $1000 dollars annually. The one place I'm able to save is on book covers. Having a graphic design background, I'm able to do those on my own."
Michelle Dunbar
"I'm not a published author but I am an editor (developmental/content). I spend (on average) between twenty-five and forty hours on each manuscript I receive. My focus with each is to ensure a story is without flaws (plot holes), has a good depth of characteristion, realistic dialogue, imagery, symbolism, a good voice and strong narration. Ultimately, I want a reader to pick up a client's book and lose themselves in the twists and turns of the story."
John Gregory Hancock
"I think free books hurt the industry overall, even though it helps individual authors temporarily. The problem is free books communicate something of no value, and that is why they are shoved to the back of the to be read pile, and are seldom reviewed. People tend to review books they pay for."
We added a few late edition books