The image above comes from Reedsy, one of the biggest grifters marketing platforms for would-be authors. This is what they estimate a writer should pay to indie-publish a quality novel.
Maybe I’m financially smarter than I thought I was. For Rags and Muffin, it happens that I got professional editing from my former publisher before my former publisher went defunct, but if I’d hired a freelancer myself, I could get a good one for a quarter of what Reedsy suggests I’d pay. Even with proofreading and line-editing thrown in, I could get it for half or less.
I have a professional cover, as you can see. I paid a little over half of what Reedsy suggests.
I have, however, already paid more in marketing than the shockingly low price of $400. We’ll see if it bears fruit or if I’ve flushed my money.
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