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Don’t Choose One Out of Desperation I met a writer at Bouchercon who is just starting out in the fiction[…]
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Don’t Choose One Out of Desperation I met a writer at Bouchercon who is just starting out in the fiction[…]
Read moreEvery Thanksgiving I remember The Great Turkey Soup Fiasco because life really is the best place to mine for plots.
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Read moreI am thrilled to welcome award winning author Jodé Millman to the Miss Demeanors. Jodé reviews books for Booktrib.com and she[…]
Read moreTikTok’s Redacted Statements – that weren’t. In October (2024) I wrote about the exploding pagers and walkie talkies Israel got[…]
Read moreIn honor of Election Day, I’m not writing about Election Day, but rather something far more unifying. Dogs! Specifically, the[…]
Read moreAre you a good witch or a bad witch? When Dorothy crash lands in Oz, she answers Glinda’s baffling question[…]
Read moreWrite Like Shakespeare, Market Like Scrooge In preparation for a Bouchercon panel on finding success as an indie author, I[…]
Read moreCan an author do his or her own editing? The short answer is no.
Unless you can literally step out of your own head, you will never have the perspective necessary to see your work in its true light. Writers need editor because although we have many of the necessary skills, we don’t have the one irreplaceable skill—distance.
With that said, can an author revise his or her manuscript so that editing is a pleasant rather than traumatic experience? The good news is yes, we can. Here are my Top Ten Tips for preparing your manuscript for professional editing.
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