Today is part 2 of Ask the Editor and is a continuation of yesterday’s questions. What clues can help authors in knowing they have a good editor? What a great question. Many writers may wonder about this without ever really voicing the question even to themselves. Scams are everywhere in all arenas. My take on…
Change slapped me in the face a few weeks ago. More accurately, it slugged me so hard it knocked me down. Has that ever happened to you? For most of us life ushers in change. Getting married, having a baby, a child heads off to college. Or losing a loved one, a devastating illness, getting…
Today’s post is by award-winning author Kathy Nickerson, author of 4 books and counting. This year she released The Secret of Serendipity and Rose Hill Cottage, each a different genre. Her debut novel, Thirty Days to Glory, won the 2014 CSPA Book of the Year. Her books are engaging, fun, and always have a twist at…
“If you build it they will come.” We’ve all heard that before, and it worked great to promote Kevin Costner’s baseball-cornfield. But somewhere down the years, many people embraced that slogan concerning their own products. By now I’m sure you, like me, have discovered that for anything else it doesn’t work! You can’t put a book…
Outlining. It’s one of those touchy subjects among writers—should you outline your story or not? But like my recent post “Are You Crippling Your Creativity?” there is a certain misconception about outlines many beginning writers have that I hope to dispel today. Most of us grew up being taught the traditional outline.
God designed us with 5 senses—hear, taste, touch, see, and smell. In the majority of manuscripts I read, the sense of sight is heavily relied upon. It’s understandable to describe what we see in our world, but there’s so much more we can use
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This is an intro paragraph and can be used to hook folks into reading your article or highlight a specific piece of information. This is an example of a WordPress post, you could edit this to put information about yourself so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many posts as…