Working with your editor...
I can't make you believe how important a good editor is unless you've experienced bad editing. I'm reading several free self published books on Amazon and suddenly that point has been made crystal to everyone. I can deal with poor formatting and even a repeated word or two in a good story. What bothers me is when a story has great potential but it's marred with character flaws or plot holes. Critique partners can help or a good content editor. I'm not a punctuation purest or even a grammatical fanatic. I love Nora Roberts so head hopping, when done well, isn't going to put me off. That being said, what does bother me is... Dangling modifiers/misplaced modifiers (Learn to recognize and correct them.) There instead of their or they're (and all other homonym issues) Flip flopping between American spellings/language and the Queen's English (Pick one-stick to it.) Blatant pov issues ( He's thinking what a sexy smile and great pecs he has? I don...