Has this happened to you? You’re reading a mass market paperback or a best seller on your e-reader, and you stumble over a typo. How did that experience make you feel? Me too. As a writer, you want to transport your readers to another world, not yank them from it feeling irritated that no one cared enough to make this right. Rose Ciccarelli Caring about your readers may be the single best reason to use an editor, but there are others as well. Cold readers are crucial to honing your work, and an editor is the ultimate cold reader , who not only possesses a set of keen eyes but also LOVES to read, and has probably read a lot. An editor sees what you don’t, the missing words, misspellings, and errors in punctuation and grammar. We all miss our own mistakes because our brains fill in the blanks. We see what we think we wrote, not what is actually on the page. At the most basic level, an editor is a proofreader, taking care of all the nuts and bo...
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