I had no idea finding an editor was going to be so difficult.  Writing erotica, even erotic-romance limits the number of experienced editors you can work with.  Through January I spend time searching the blogs, looking for editors, interviewed a few and found them wanting.

I made a list of questions that I wanted the editors to answer before I hired one.  Part of the basic decision is that I want a professional to edit my book.  The prices were scary.  The range was from $850 to $2,000 depending on what I wanted.  I narrowed the list to a structural edit.  My reasoning, good or bad, is that if the structure is wrong then everything else fails.

After five interviews, and that took forever to set up and pull off, I narrowed it down to one editor. I chose Lauren (https://www.book-editing.com/lauren-brenzy/) to help me figure out this first novel.  Her credentials were spotless.

The good news is that she will take on the challenge of a first-time author in erotic-romance.

The bad news is that she won’t have time till the middle of March.  I’ll keep self-editing till early March and then send her the manuscript.

We’ll see how this goes.