Author Buzz

I saw an advert for some pricy editorial services today and that got me thinking. When my novel is finished is it worth paying for an editor or a proofreader?

Is there any value in something like that? I get my writers’ group to go over the MS in beta reading. That’s the same thing (more or less).

Just wondering what other people thought.

Just asking for curiosity more than anything more concrete but are there topics or themes that a novel should stay away from?

I can’t think of anything off the top of my head but are there any?

I’m thinking of setting up a blog.

I’ve seen that bloggers sometimes put up pages (which I assume are different to posts) with key information. How do I do that and what pages do I need?

Thanks.

I don’t mean to complain but there’s a lot of spam about. Any chance of a “report spam” button?

Same goes for those football-obsessed spam groups that keep getting added.