Kristen Lamb knows editors — especially good ones, or ones called to do heavy lifting — aren’t cheap.
She knows it because she’s an author, and she knows it because she’s a freelance editor as well.
So she has some skin in both games when she reminds authors that they’re best served by not giving an editor their very first draft.
Lamb suggests seven ways to improve your manuscript before hiring an editor — saving you money and saving the editor some time — in this blog post.