{"id":5059,"date":"2011-02-02T14:19:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:59:25","slug":"first-rule-of-self-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/first-rule-of-self-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"First rule of self-publishing:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get a professional editor.<\/p>\n<p>Period.<\/p>\n<p>No excuse.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care how good your beta readers and critique partners are.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re a traditionally published midlist author going out on your own.<\/p>\n<p>Get a professional editor.<\/p>\n<p>You want to self-publish? Put in the time and the effort and the money,<em> just like a big publisher would<\/em>. This is a business and you are creating a product to sell to people. Give them a good product.<\/p>\n<p>That product begins with a <strong><em>professional editor<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a professional editor. Period. No excuse. I don&#8217;t care how good your beta readers and critique partners are. I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re a traditionally published midlist author going out on your own. Get a professional editor. You want to self-publish? Put in the time and the effort and the money, just like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[529,587,530],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-production","category-editing","category-self-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16683,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions\/16683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}