Publicity Tip #110 ~ I’ve touched on offering your books and other smaller compilations for free to help you gain followers and build your email list. Today I’d like to talk about how you can be selling yourself for free… Read More ›
M.J. Moores
Editing Tip #112 – Making a Stronger Impact with Phraseology
It’s not uncommon to hear about reducing the number of passive sentences in your work, or trimming the fat (extra words) for simplicity of thought and clarity of intent. But what crosses your mind when an editor highlights a perfectly… Read More ›
Editing Tip #111 – Don’t Be Afraid to Try Something New
Without even realizing it, at every stage of our writing careers (from first learning the ropes to having several books published) we get used to crafting our stories a certain way. In the early stages we take courses, attend workshops… Read More ›
Editing Tip #110 – Knowing What Format You’re Writing in is Half the Battle
Many new writers know of the two main categories of writing: Novels and Short Stories. Occasionally emerging writers are also familiar with the term Novella but this is where things start to get ‘sticky’. Certain genres do well as novellas… Read More ›
Book Review: The Steam Room Diaries / Fiction
The Steam Room Diaries Author: Cameron Miller Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars. Recommended Reading. Genre: Fiction / Humour / Spiritual . How does that old joke go? A priest, a Rabi, and a banker walk into a bar… Hmm… How… Read More ›
Editing Tip #109 – Hiring an Editor Doesn’t Mean Losing Your Voice
Have you ever thought (when you were first starting out) that if you hired a professional editor to do a substantive/content edit or a line/stylistic edit that suddenly your narrative voice was a risk of disappearing? That the manuscript you… Read More ›
Editing Tip #108 – When to Trust an Editor’s Advice
I have run across this a few times now in past three years – a new client will come my way (usually because they’ve learned my new-client prices are crazy low), they will have gone through an editor or two… Read More ›
Editing Tip #107 – Character Voice & Intoning Accents
There’s a difference between reading, “And then, in her Jamaican accent she said ‘sit right down’ – and I did.” And… “Seet ry’t down,” Rainey said. Her dark eyes shiny; a contrast to her equally dark but matte skin tone…. Read More ›
Editing Tip #106 – The Name Game: Keeping Things Clear
Have you noticed how sometimes it’s effortless to read a fellow author’s work and you can’t help but marvel, in those hidden recesses of the mind, at the ease of this feat? One of the easiest ways to break the… Read More ›
Editing Tip#105 – Don’t State the Obvious
One of the best ways to tighten up your prose is by learning to find and eliminate redundancies. Trust me, this is easier than it sounds. First, you have to put some distance between yourself and your manuscript (if you… Read More ›
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