Ah thank you!
Just so you know, I will push an update on Amazon soon. When I formatted the manuscript for Kindle, all the italic passages had been removed. I thought I had corrected them all, but I realized I had missed many. I also fixed the first two chapters, which I found too choppy.
Once I upload the new version, I will ask Amazon to notify the buyers so they can update their file. (Of course, there will be no charge.)
I am revising it all so I will not have to bug the people and Amazon too often. It's so much easier to do that on Smashwords.
I haven't given up on the idea of a professional editing, but I am not willing to pay in the thousands for it and the one I hired a few months ago was not much more than a human word processor. It would have been funny if not for the waste of time and money.