Six Text Editors for Self-Published Authors

Grace Huang
9 min readFeb 18, 2024

As independent authors, choosing a good editor is a crucial consideration. Why? Because you will need to use it for the entire duration of writing your book, which could be a significant amount of time.

When I wrote my first book, I thought editors did not matter. I could copy and paste to another editor if I found the editor not good enough. I was wrong! A book has a complicated layout (title, headings, footnotes), various font styles (font size, code styles, etc.), and elements such as images and footnotes attached to it. Copy-pasting would take a lot…

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Grace Huang

I write about startups, entrepreneurship, investing, software, hardware and manufacturing.