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3 Quick Edits for a Final Polish + a Format Fix
It’s the final round of proofreading for your novel. First of all, congratulations for making this far! Okay, that’s enough celebrating. Time to get to business. If you’re going to self-publish, you may decide to take on this final proofreading step yourself. Or you may have a friend look over your manuscript. You could also [… Read More]
Self-Publishing Resources, pt 2: Process & Design
Last week I posted links to articles and websites that helped me make my decision to self-publish and some that could help you decide how to go about that, if you decided to go the DIY route. Today, I’m moving on to the process of self-publishing. It can be an involved process, but not necessarily difficult. [… Read More]
3 Words to Guide Your Writing
We all have received writing advice from professors, teachers, and mentors. Some of this advice we eventually set aside, others we keep because the words continue to serve us. One of my first graduate school professors offered our class, in one of the first sessions of the semester, some guidance as he summed up what [… Read More]
The Hunger Games side effect
Like many bloggers, I am an aspiring author. These days, I work on revising a novel—which is nice, because when I say I have the first draft written, people actually think I might finish and publish one day. Hey, I think I might finish. Being in the revision stage has been like seeing the light [… Read More]
Typos? Bad Ebook! No Cookie!
Did you know that in nearly every book (I’m talking paper now) there’s a typo? Yup. Actually fewer in fiction than non, by my observations. But it’s rare that I don’t spot a typo as I read, well, anything. I accept that. Nobody’s perfect, right? Even the editors of the Big 6. Well, something’s been [… Read More]