The one thing that is sure to kill sales is BAD GRAMMAR and TYPOS

Take a look at these scathing reviews.

2-star review

The concept was excellent. The execution fell through on many levels. He kept using there instead of their. I had to stop reading.

1-star review

Wish I had opened this book sooner, I would have asked for my money back. Very poor English usage. Even the chapter headings were incorrect. Hard to take the author seriously when he won’t even hire an editor.

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There are readers who are fanatical about grammar and who will give you one or two star ratings because they have found typos or poor grammar usage in your book.

BUT they may never get that far, because if your TITLE is spelled incorrectly (I kid you not) or your description is riddled with mistakes, they will never purchase your book no matter how enticing your sales copy is.

What was your reaction after the reviews above? When I see comments about bad grammar, my reaction is to hesitate and read another few reviews. I always read the “look-inside” material and if I see problems there, I’ll pass.

Bad grammar is evident in three places:

Your title
Your description
The “look inside” section of your book

ALL of these need to be PERFECT. Actually, your whole book should be as perfect as you can make it, but errors in these three very visible places can and will kill book sales.

Grammarly is a nifty piece of software that can save you from embarrassing errors. It catches typos that WORD misses and catches grammar snafus, offering better alternatives in most cases.

My biggest challenge with Grammarly is the PRICE. The Pro upgrade is simply out of the picture for many writers at $30 a month or $140 a year.

So imagine how happy I was to find ProWritingAid!

It does everything that Grammarly does and MORE. And the price is only $70 per year or a lifetime membership for $240.

And YES, it actually works in Scrivener too!

Pro Writing Aid’s free editor allows you to check up to 500 words at a go. This is great for testing out the software and checking your first few book chapters … but after that free gets very tedious, just go for the Pro! You simply can’t beat the price!