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Content &  Copyediting Series

 

 

Getting the Most out of Your Copyeditor: The Style Sheet

Lost in Translation

Editing Legalese

An Editor and a Writer

And the Word is Hmm... 

Book Titles and Headlines

Writing and Editing for Readers

Consistent Characterization

Create or Correct?

Documenting Research for Your Book

Easy E-mail? Writing Effective E-mail

Editing for Clear Communication

Email Writing Etiquette

Helping Authors Achieve Their Goals

Historical Approaches to Author/Editor Conflicts   

Is an MFA Program Right for You?

Keep Criticism Constructive

Lose That Critique Contempt!

Make Your Words Worth Their Weight In Gold

Mining the Elements in Good Stories

On Screen

Writing and Editing with Creative Vision 

Six Habits of Highly Successful Editors

Author/Editor Relationship: Success Defined or Deferred?

The Compromising Writer

The Editor as a Coach

The Role of the Copyeditor

The Write Word: From the Heart

The Written Word: Real Never-Ending Story

Top Five Editorial Pet Peeves: Non-fiction Books

Will the Internet Change the Way We Edit?

Writing, Editing and Proofreading: A Love Relationship

The Pre-edit Edit: The Final Steps Before Submitting a Manuscript

 

 

 

Grammar, Spelling & Punctuation Series

 

 

Accounting for Limited Historical Documentation

Adjectives Are Not Adverbs

Avoid Exclamation Marks!

The Necessary Transition

Three Moods In Verbs 

Editing the Minimal Pairs

Understanding Commas

Gender-Neutral Language

Fragments and Run-ons: How Far and Why

Creating Paragraphs

Is This a Word?

Citing the Internet

Genitive is Not a Dirty Word

 

Writing Improvement Series

 

 

 

The Moral Author Writing In—and About—an Immoral World

Attracting & Binding Readers to Your Writing

Building and Resolving Conflict in the Poetic Novel

Point of View

Does Practice Improve Writing?

Adding Technicolor & Surround Sound

Convincing Characterization

Selecting Descriptive Words

Using Real Life Experiences to Create Fictional Stories

Writing the Mona Lisa

Writing About War

Writing as a Trauma Recovery Tool

The Essence of Fiction: Characterization & Dialogue

Writers Question EverythingAt Least Good Ones Do

The Underrated Art Of Comedy Writing

Write From the Heart

Facts, Fiction, or Opinion

What Writer's Block?

Observation is the Answer

Are You a Good Writer?

Fundamental Poetic Novel Concepts

Get Going! You Can Do It! 

Writing a Readable Business Manuscript

Overcoming Writers Block

Truth and Realness in Writing

Difficulty of Documenting African Culture

Seduced by the Power of Language

When Less is Truly More

Carrying Readers along a Subliminal Current of Subtext

 

 

Book Publishing Article Series

 

 

The Importance of First Impressions

Make it Hard for Your Readers to Put Down Your Novel

Using Test Readers

Tips for Getting Booked on Oprah by Susan Harrow Publicist & Author

Authors As Marketers

Plagiarism

Research: Putting The Facts In Fiction

Understanding Royalties: By The Numbers

The Kind of Author Not to Be

Free Your Great American Novel

Book Promotion: Onus or Bonus

Should Professionals Publish?

Pride, Prejudice, and Professionalism 

So You Want to be an Author?

The Power of Words 

Novel Ideas

Americans Speak

What Are We Selling?

Authors as the Factor Behind Their Commercial Success

The Wacky World of Writing: Science and Literature

Your Book on the Internet

 

 

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