Hi, all! I'm publishing my first book now, as well.... a very powerful opus, as Volume I of my trilogy: Devia Vaticana ~ Holy Orthodoxy! A book too powerful for sponsors to sponsor, publishers to publish it & priests to review it! So, I may have to self- publish it. So I'm learning all I can about that so as not make any serious mistakes. Cheers! Best & God Bless! +Q-S/xo~A

Haven’t started yet Doing my own self-edit Working with a professional editor Finished editing (hallelujah!) Not sure what kind of editing I need

Cutting words? Clarifying ideas? Killing your darlings?

Hello everyone. I'm so excited to be back after finishing my book. Quick questions: Do you have someone you would recommend for proofreading? How good is proofreadingservices.com? My book on women's safety is around 70K words. Getting developmental edits and line edits have been fairly expensive. Proofreading needs to be done well, and I'm getting one quote that's over a thousand dollars. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.

I’ve written a personal commentary on Revelation with unique perspectives that I’m supporting with massive amounts of Scripture and Jewish tradition. I see my ideal reader as a mature Christian who would love to dive deeply into the end times and the entirety of the Word of God. My developmental editor has suggested that I convert the many parenthetical citations to footnotes, but I worry that footnotes would be an immediate turnoff for almost all who are not biblical scholars. I’m not a biblical scholar, and so that’s the last thing I want. In fact, I suspect that my book will fail to appeal to scholars who spend far more time reading and meditating over books about the Bible than in the Bible itself. And that’s not my audience. So my question is, assuming you are not a scholar, what would be your preference for citation style? Thank you!