I think anyone who has bought some 99 cent ebooks off of Amazon or even bought these books while they were offered free for a weekend has noticed a disturbing problem with them: often times, the formatting/grammar/spelling – in short,…
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Quality in e-books: is it really so hard?
Tagged with: Amazon, Creative Penn, E-book, Ebook, ebook sellers, grammar errors, proofing, proofreading, Publishing, quality, Quality control, Self-publishing, Smashwords, writing, writing process
Posted in Grammar, Intrigues
Posted in Grammar, Intrigues
How do you decide on a novel’s title?
After my first novel was published, I had a plan for the trilogy. That included their titles, or so I thought. My first novel is title Into Fire. I wanted the titles to be along those same lines, so the…
Be professional with rejection
I read a scathing tweet a few days ago from a literary agent who had rejected a writer’s submission. Said author then had written a “snarky” reply to the literary agent. I can only imagine what the “snarky” reply was.…
Tagged with: Author, Fiction, Literary agent, Publish, Query letter, rejection, Writer, Writers Resources, writing
Posted in Intrigues
Posted in Intrigues
How being a journalist helps me as an author
I am both a journalist and an author. Are the two mutually exclusive? Obviously not. You do a google search for “journalist and author” and you come up with a lot of results of people who are both. There’s even…
Changing Point of View to Defy Writer’s Block
I was sitting at my computer the other day, trying to figure out what to do with the rest of my current work in progress. I was facing a horrific case of writer’s block. I didn’t know what was going…
Tagged with: Apple, Writer, Writers Block, Writers Resources, writing, Writing Exercises
Posted in Writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
Author Interview: Stacy Eaton
Today is my first author interview on my blog. I’m very excited to have had a chance to work with Stacy Eaton, author of the My Blood Runs Blue series. Stacy hosted me on her blog last Wednesday, and I’m…
Tagged with: Author, Outskirts Press, Publishing, Reading (process), Stacy Eaton, writing
Posted in Author Interview
Posted in Author Interview
Imperfect and real
I was reading an old Writer’s Digest the other day, and I came across this excerpt from On Writing Romance by Leigh Michael. The title of the article in Writer’s Digest was “Create the (Im)Perfect Heroic Couple,” and the author…
Tagged with: Creating characters, Leigh Michael, tips, Writer's Digest, writing
Posted in Writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
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