Hiring an Editor | LOL 092

About this episode

Lex Starwalker shares his negative experience hiring a professional editor for his novel and the lessons learned from it.

Today I return to the show after being completely demoralized by my experience hiring a “professional” editor for my novel Critical Balance. It was a terrible experience. I got conned, lost a lot of money, and have nothing to show for it except hard lessons learned. I share the red flags I ignored or overlooked and the mistakes I made in the hopes you can avoid having to go through an experience like this yourself. Links Lex Out Loud is now on Spotify . Check out my Guide to Novel Formatting in Word . Join my Book Club . How to get free ebooks & audiobooks from your library. Support the show . Join my Discord server . Call My Voicemail: 951-465-5391

People in this episode

Host: Lex Starwalker

Topics covered

• editing
• writing
• novel
• publishing
• lessons learned

Keywords

• editor
• novel
• Critical Balance
• red flags
• writing mistakes

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Critical Balance

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