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Gordon Ramsay Will You Edit My Book?
by Sherrie Wilkolaski Radio Interview on Big Blend Magazine It’s official, I’m a workaholic. With that being said, you can imagine that I don’t have, or should I say, I don’t make much time to indulge in things like watching TV. With my busy work schedule, it isn’t at the top of my “to do”...
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Publishing – The Good, the Great and the More Difficult
Some of this column will be an excerpt from “$uccess, Your Path to a Successful Book,” by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill. This was originally published in The Big Blend Magazine. The publishing world can be overwhelming, but don’t let it deter you if your passion is to be a published author. It seems...
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The Toils of Professional Book Editors
by Ellie Maas Davis “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” –Dorothy Parker It happened twice this past week. Once two weeks ago, before that it’d been at least six months. Like all things insidious, sad, and uncanny, they seem to travel in threes, and...
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Getting Personal in the Increasingly Anonymous World of Publishing: Editors and Authors
by Ellie Maas Davis Strangely, over the years, I’ve found I rather appreciate finding an author bio enclosed at the tail end of a manuscript I’m about to edit. An author photo, which long ago might frustrate me for poking a hole through the veil of anonymity, now brings me pleasure. It isn’t as if...
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Indie Authors Watch Out: Readers Are Looking At the Quality of Self-published Books
by Sherrie Wilkolaski Of the three browsers I regularly have open on my laptop, there are always at least 2-3 tabs dedicated to a page on Amazon, for one reason or another. Perhaps I’m looking up an author’s reviews, checking in on the Amazon sales rank or want to see what their key words are...
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Choosing an Editor
by Ellie Maas Davis When it comes to finding an editor to help you with your book, make sure it’s someone who responds to what you’ve written and how you’ve written it. Make no mistake: no one likes to be edited. It can be an incredibly painful process. You’re basically paying someone to poke holes...
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A Junior Editor’s Advice to the Novice Author
by John William Myers IV I am lucky enough to get paid for my hobby. As much as I’d like to say this is for my tennis or scuba diving skills, it is actually more fun than that. I love to edit. In high school and particularly in college I was a decent writer, but...
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Writers’ Block: The Symptoms and the Cure
By Karen Hodges Miller The other day I had a writing deadline. I wrote a lead. Deleted it. Wrote another. Deleted it. Played some solitaire. Checked my email. Wrote a third lead. Deleted it. Got a snack. Wrote a fourth lead. I was suffering from that dread disease, Writer’s Block. If you haven’t experienced Writer’s...
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Shopping Around for the Right Publishing Fit
by J Lloyd Morgan When doing presentations at schools and other events, I’m often asked how hard it is to get published. It’s a fairly loaded question, to be sure. Though I’m fairly new to the publishing game, from what I have learned there are more options than ever for authors. However, each one comes...
What’s Holding You Back?
By Karen Hodges Miller The more I learn about writer’s block the more I understand that when a writer has more than the average problem with finding the right sentence or paragraph, there is usually some underlying fear that is preventing the person from writing. Oh yes, there are all kinds of excuses: I just...
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Tips for Writing a Cookbook
by Maralyn D. Hill There are many reasons for writing a cookbook. Some are as easy as the desire to create a history of family recipes, while others wish to write a best seller. There are many questions you need to ask yourself, but knowing why you want to write a cookbook is at the...
Chili Peppers and the Self-Publishing Choice
by Michael Hultquist I used to have a bias against self-publishing. Early on I bought into the idea that a work was no good unless it was published in what used to be the “traditional” manner, through a publishing house with editors, designers, marketing teams and a distribution network. The truth is, you have available...
