Proofread the Edited Draft of Your eBook After your editor is done editing, make sure that you read through the entire book. Pay attention to grammar and sentence structure; don’t focus on the content of the book. Finalize your content and the structure of your book before you finish writing it. You will keep finding things to change if you look at the content after you are done writing. This will make it harder to finish your book and move onto the next. Proofread the edited version of your eBook. Make whatever changes you can as you read through it. Try not to be too nitpicky when you’re proofreading. As mentioned earlier, you will struggle to finish your book if you try hard to improve every bit of it. Talk to your editor if there are still a lot of grammatical errors in your eBook. Have them make the necessary changes and send you a revised draft at the earliest. You are paying your editor for their service, so don’t accept sloppy work. Keep asking them to make revisions until the draft is the best it can be. You are in charge, so you should always get your money’s worth. What Should You Do If You’re Editing Your Non-Fiction Book Yourself? Though we don’t recommend it, you can always consider editing your eBook yourself. By writing and editing your work yourself, you may overlook some errors. This is because it can be difficult to recognize your mistakes. You can prevent this by editing a book that you didn’t write. By that, we mean that you hire a ghostwriter to write the entire eBook, and then you edit it once he is done. This way, the final word on that book will be yours. Here’s a short guide on what you should do when editing your non-fiction book. These tasks are important for all forms of writing, but our goal is to discuss how it specifically helps with editing non-fiction writing. Rest for a Few Days The last thing that you should do when editing your book yourself is edit as soon as you finish writing. You must give yourself at least a few days of rest from your book. We recommend you take a week off. In that week off, try not to think about your book. Focus on other things in your life. This will allow you to come back to your book with a fresh mind. It is important to read your book like you’re doing it for the first time. This way, you will be able to pick up on mistakes that you overlooked the first time you were writing and reading it. Also, if you start editing as soon as you finish writing, you 46