Help regarding Publishing stuff

by Zohaib Ahmed
29th September 2012

i am going to contact my agents very soon but before that i wanna make sure that is there any expenses i have to pay for publishing stuff?

and copy editing and proof reading must be done before contacting agent?

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To have your copy edited is not necessarily a false economy, just expensive. I find that I suffer from word blindness with my own work, a) because I will unconsciously include words that my brain thinks I should find, and b) editing, especially of longer works, is boring. Finally, one of the hardest things to edit is good work simply because one is more interested in reading than editing.

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Gary Baker
05/10/2012

Thankyou Dor Armitage

i am improving, and i am working on it truly

Thnaks for ur kind advise :)

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Zohaib
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Zohaib Ahmed
01/10/2012

NEVER pay an agent or publisher money up front.

Do not pay a "reading fee", do not pay a "submission fee", do not pay money to anybody who claims that's how the publishing industry works.

If you want to have your work copy edited before you submit it, that is your choice (make sure you research any services you use. You get what you pay for.), it's not a necessity. I regard it as a false economy - a writer should know how to edit their own work. If you can't write in standardised English, you need to learn.

Zohaib, the English you use here is a very long way from the standard you need to be a published writer. While I admire your goals, you may have some way to go yet. Good luck :)

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