Hey everyone 👋 I’m offering FREE copy editing and proofreading for 1–5 chapters (or equivalent word count) for a few authors in this community. If you’ve written something and you’re not 100% confident about:• Grammar and clarity• Flow and readability• Small errors you might have missed I’ll go through it carefully and give you a clean, polished version at no cost. Why am I doing this? I enjoy helping writers refine their work, and I’m also looking to connect with more authors and build long-term relationships. If your manuscript needs deeper editing beyond the free chapters, we can continue the work professionally through my Fiverr. No pressure at all even if it’s just the free edit, I’m happy to help. If you’re interested, drop a comment or send me a message with:• Your genre• Number of chapters• What you feel your manuscript needs help with Looking forward to working with some of you.

Is there a specific reason? Are you on a time crunch? Are you a bit of a control freak and need to do it yourself? Is it about the money potential?

I'm currently editing a middle grade fantasy and an adult fantasy book. Question for the editors in the group: How many times do you go through a manuscript before sending it back to the author for the first round of edits? If you are the author, do you know your editors process?

It’s the brave way in. You become the writer, marketer, strategist, and visionary all at once. It stretches you. It exposes you. It sharpens you. But it also gives you ownership. What’s the biggest lesson self-publishing has taught you so far? Or the lesson you ought to have know before now?

I screen recorded the process of uploading a simple paperback to KDP (edited down to 13 minutes). This was for a poetry book written by Astronaut Dr. Sian Proctor. We filmed this to share at a "how to publish your book" workshop at the Analog Astronaut Conference (AAC) held each May at Biosphere II in Arizona.