u/Sentosa305

Yesterday, I finished my manuscript. Now I have to polish it. A few questions.

I was originally planning to read through the entire novel first (74k), send it to the editors, then publish it. But I read somewhere to read it after the editors; twice seems a little too much for me. Should I send it to the editors now without doing my own read?

Also, I'm thinking of doing three edits:

1. Developmental edit

2. Copy edit

3. Proofread

Can I have one editor combine all three into one read? Maybe I can have an AI do the proofread and copy edit? (I have already had some AIs look at some of my chapters for general feedback.) Not sure where to go at this point.