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Published on September 09, 2017 06:00

Editing client publishes her first healing book

A recent editing client who��s been featured on CNN and in The Huffington Post has published her first book. Alexcis Lopez��s From Anxious to Awesome posits that millions suffer mental, emotional and physical ailments simply because they possess unresolved feelings. Unfortunately, they remain unresolved �� often for years �� because cultural myths and personal misunderstandings persist about ��feelings.�� Alexcis explores exactly what is a feeling and defines seven primary ones �� anger, fear, loneliness, pain, sadness, shame and joy �� that we experience in times of trouble. Once we recognize that these feelings are neither good nor bad but merely a sign, then we can ��unpack�� them with five steps that help us regain control of our lives for the better. Alexcis is a therapist and owner of A Transformative Touch Wellness Center. A mind-body healing specialist, she brings holistic healing to the root causes of emotional, mental and physical traumas. From Anxious to Awesome is available online as a Kindle ebook and will be available with a few days in paperback.

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

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Published on September 08, 2017 06:00

6 Tips for Writers From a Self-Published Success

�� Consider organizing short stories into fix-it novel
�� Should I copyright my manuscript?
�� Publish your short stories in an anthology
�� Consider adding artwork to interior of your book
�� Do you need a manuscript editor?
�� Design a back cover that sells your book

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

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Published on September 07, 2017 06:00

Clarity on 11 Commonly Confused Words

�� Ensure vs. assure vs. insure
�� Farther vs. further
�� Mould vs. mold
�� Than vs. then
�� Tiptoe vs. tip-toe

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

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Five Great Quotations about the Craft of Writing - Inventing Reality Editing Service

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Published on September 06, 2017 06:00

5 Great Sci-Fi Writing Prompts

Science fiction stories typically revolve around a novum, a scientifically plausible concept that is a ��reality�� in the tale. The novum might be an mechanical device like robot servants, artificial intelligence, or space stations with artificial gravity; it also can be a hypothetical idea such as ��The Earth is a scientific experiment run by aliens to determine the meaning of life�� or ��The government outlaws books.�� The author then asks ��What if?�� exploring how the world with this novum is different than ours.

Among the problems of many novice science fiction writers is instead of introducing a new novum they rely on used furniture �� that is, they borrow novums from popular SF series. After all, how many novels have you read that use starships exploring the galaxy for the Earth-based Federation? Barely changing names to appear as if you are not appropriating �� a starcraft seeking M-class worlds for the Earth-centered Alliance �� still doesn��t cut it as original or fully using the potential that science fiction offers to examine our culture or humanity.

To help SF writers, here are some novums of potential near-future inventions from which stories could be built:

Digital fabricator
What if everyone had a sophisticated 3D printer in their home or business? All you have to do is download a pattern, enter enough raw materials, hit PRINT, and voil��, you have a toy, a small piece of furniture, or an electronic device. How will this disrupt and alter the economy and people��s lives?

Fire-fighting drones
Rather than fight fires with water, why not have drones direct pressure waves at fires? At the right frequency (especially a bass sound), the sound waves actually suck the oxygen away from the fire, suppressing it. Could such a system be installed in buildings rather than the sprinkler systems we currently use?

Hyperloop mass transportation
What if compressed air and induction motors could propel a train through a vacuum tube at 760 miles per hour (Such a system already is on the planning table.)? How would this change commuting, the way retail shops are located, and people��s perception of distance?

Invisible gel
What if doctors, during a diagnosis or surgery, could inject a liquid into the body so that skin is nearly transparent, allowing them to see through to the blood vessels underneath? What other applications might there be for this gel?

Robot pets
What if your family could have a robot pet, a perfect replication of a dog or a cat, except that it never needs to be fed or cleaned up after, can be powered down when you go on vacation, and will live much, much longer? What are the downsides of having such a pet?

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

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Published on September 05, 2017 06:00

Editing client publishes her first SF novel

A recent editing client, Gina DeWink, has published her first science fiction novel, "Time in My Pocket." When Liza Anderson looks into a locket's mirror, she suddenly finds herself in a younger woman's body in 1947. Believing she has traveled more than 60 years back in time, Liza comes face to face with the reality of life during the golden age of Hollywood��glamour, communism, smallpox and all��only to discover that the Barbara Jane Miller she's become is caught up in a drug-selling scheme that could get her killed. Will Liza survive the dangers of her new world? Will she ever return to her own time and the children she left behind?

"Time in My Pocket" is available online in paperback and ebook.

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Published on September 04, 2017 06:00

Five Great Quotations about Book Critics

��I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so.�� - Neil Gaiman

��Better (to) put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers.�� - Jack McClelland

��One can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.�� - Dorothy L. Sayers

��I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction and poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that��s all.�� - Stephen King

��Don��t worry about what people are going to think about you. Just write what you want to write.�� - Jackie Collins

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Published on September 03, 2017 06:00

5 Tips to Encourage and Motivate Writers

�� Visualize your story
�� Apply some techniques
�� When you are creative?
�� Collect great quotations
�� Volunteer your skills
�� BONUS: ��I meet far too many people who are going to be writers ��someday.�� - Robin Hobb

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Published on September 02, 2017 06:00

Develop a marketing plan to increase sales

Marketing your book can become a full-time job that yields few immediate results. This cuts into your limited writing time �� and you still need to work, raise your family, and maybe even attend school. The best solution is to develop a marketing plan and then limit your work on it to a few minutes a day.

A marketing plan gives your efforts focus, allowing you to maximize results for your efforts. It��s about determining the best ways to reach readers and enacting strategies to do so.

Your marketing plan should include the following elements:
�� Objectives �� An author always has two goals: a) to create buzz about book; and b) to turn this awareness into an engaged audience that purchases your book. Especially if writing nonfiction, you may have a third goal: to build your name as an expert on your book's topic.
�� Target audience �� Next, determine who specifically is most likely to read your book. This should at least include gender and age but depending on your book��s topic might include education levels or even careers.
�� Target media list �� Once you��ve identified your target audience, learn which media it usually utilizes, especially to find out information about your topic. Such media might include blogs, podcasts, print publications like newspapers and magazines, radio, and television.
�� PR tactics �� These are specific public relations actions you'll take to gain coverage from your target media list. For example, you might send a press release announcing your book��s release to everyone on your target media list.
�� Marketing Tactics �� You��ll also want to list specific marketing actions you'll take to directly promote your book to the target audience. Among them might be offering a book giveaway on Goodreads or writing an informative article related to your book��s topic for an outlet on your target media list.
�� Social media campaign �� This is a list of specific social media actions you'll take to reach your target audience. These will include creating accounts on social media your target audience uses, making posts on those accounts, and including hashtags popular with your target audience on those social media platforms.
�� Op-Ed �� You also can list any specific opinion/editorial page actions you'll take, such as writing a guest column related to your book��s topic, for a newspaper, magazine or blog. This is particularly useful for authors of nonfiction book aiming to change people��s perspectives.
�� Advertising �� Determine if there are any places you can purchase ads that would effectively reach your target audience. This might be on Amazon.com or in a magazine that caters to your target audience.
�� Events �� You can deliver a number of presentations such as book readings/signings, book fairs, and conferences that your target audience would attend.

Always remember that there��s no one-size-fits-all marketing and promoting plan for every book. Your first book is a good opportunity to experiment and learn what works and what doesn��t. Keep those lessons in mind when writing a marketing plan for your second and subsequent books.

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

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