Rob Bignell's Blog, page 245
May 27, 2017
Editing client publishes women���s health book
A recent editing 
client of mine has published the latest edition of her women's health book. Sherrie Palm���s "Pelvic Organ Prolapse: The Silent Epidemic" takes a hard look at a common but rarely discussed women���s health concern. There are more than 300,000 surgeries for POP annually, and an estimated that 50% of childbearing women experience this condition. Palm���s personal experience helped her understand all aspects of this common but seldom understood female health condition. "Pelvic Organ Prolapse: The Silent Epidemic" explains the condition, the treatment options available, how POP impacts a woman���s sexuality, and how to self-care after surgery. Palm is the founder/CEO/Executive Director of the Association for Pelvic Organ Prolapse Support. The book is available online in paperback or ebook.
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.
<A HREF="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widg... Widgets</A>
Related articles
Writing Inspiration: Revise and continue
Editing tip: Read for a solution
May 24, 2017
Editing clients publish latest crime thriller
Two recent editing 
clients of mine, Karl Bort and Thekla Madsen, have published their latest crime thriller, ���Angry Nurse.��� When wealthy Cleveland businessman David Feighan is admitted to St. Luke���s Behavioral Health Unit in a catatonic state, he ���miraculously��� recovers in the presence of Nurse Joshua Ramsey. David insists his wife, lawyer and the hospital administrator are plotting to have him permanently committed and implores Joshua to help him. Are these the ravings of an insane man or is something more sinister at work? When David���s wife and lawyer are found dead, Detective Nicholas Silvano gets the case. The husband is usually the first suspect, but David has a solid alibi ��� he���s locked up at St. Luke���s. The investigation stalls...until a crayon drawing leads Nick back to St. Luke���s and a surprising new suspect. The novel is available online in paperback or ebook. You also can find out more about the authors and their great books on Facebook.
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.
<A HREF="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widg... Widgets</A>
Related articles
Writing Inspiration: Explore then strive
Appeal to sense of sound when writing
Editing tip: Read for a solution
May 23, 2017
Editing client tops Amazon���s New Release list
A recent 
editing client has published a sequel to her mystery series, and it made the #1 NEW RELEASE ON AMAZON for paperbacks in its category! Alexi Venice's "Amanda���s Dragonfly, The San Francisco Mystery Series, Book 2," explores the triangle of Amanda Hawthorne, a powerful District Attorney in San Francisco, her girlfriend Jen Dawson, who is facing monumental personal changes and dangerous threats from mobsters, and Tommy Vietti, a police detective who Jen left Amanda for. To ensure they survive the mob's effort to stop a trial from going forward, they will have to somehow learn to work together. The novel is available online in paperback or ebook.
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.
<A HREF="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widg... Widgets</A>
Related articles
Make tables readable in your self-published book
Three ebook formatting tips, Part VII
Use link shortneers for tidier promotions
April 2, 2017
Always be a poet, even in prose. - Charles Baudelaire
Other great quotations about writing style:
���Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.��� - Gore Vidal
���I���m not a very intentional writer... What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.��� - William Gibson
���Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.��� - Jean Little
���A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.��� - Gertrude Stein
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.
<A HREF="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widg... Widgets</A>
Related articles
Writing Inspiration: Explore then strive
Five Great Quotations about the Writing Process
Make tables readable in your self-published book
March 29, 2017
Place ���said��� after speaker���s name
Does placing 
said before or after attribution ��� as in Thales said or said Thales ��� matter?
The answer in large part depends upon how it sounds in particular sentence. Given that, how a reader responds really is a matter of personal taste.
Still ��� and this is grounded solely in my training as a journalist ��� I almost always place said after the name. That���s because said is a largely invisible word that readers just need to spot, rather than actually read, to make a sense of a sentence. What���s important in dialogue, of course, isn���t said (the quotation marks show that someone was speaking) but who said it. So readability can be improved if the name is given right after the quotation marks and said is relegated to after the name, as in Thales said. The eye then can naturally flow from the speaker���s name to the next sentence.
I have yet to see any scientific evidence proving this theory taught by some journalism professors and practiced by some editors. Regardless, if most American newspapers and magazine articles follow this pattern, then most American readers likely are unconsciously comfortable with the construction. Further, with the advent of the Internet, people tend to scan text rather than read it as they would a book, meaning readers probably will prefer any writing that improves their scanning efficiency.
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.
<A HREF="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widg... Widgets</A>
Related articles
Writing Inspiration: Go off the grid
Three ebook formatting tips, part VII
How to best use hashtags on Pinterest
March 26, 2017
Five Great Quotations about ���Why Write?���
���We write 
to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.��� - Lailah Gifty Akita
���To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my creative contemplation of an opened mind...it is a storytelling venture on a blank page of paper and white canvases...it is reclaiming my life.��� - Isabella Koldras
���The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. - Norbet Platt
���I think that trying to be a writer kills. Writing simply has to be a sickness, a drug.��� - Charles Bukowski
���The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.��� - Albert Camus
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.
&amp;amp;amp;lt;A HREF="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widg... Widgets&amp;amp;amp;lt;/A&amp;amp;amp;gt;
Related articles
Five Great Quotations about the Writing Process
Writing Inspiration: Seek another's advice
Writing Inspiration: Who are you?
Make tables readable in your self-published book
Four ways to write a great tweet that sells books
March 25, 2017
Sell more books by carrying them around
How many 
times has a conversation led to you saying that you���ve written a book?
The other person usually responds with awe and asks what the book is about. Wouldn���t it be nice to hand them a copy of your book as you answer their questions?
It���s why I always recommend that you carry a copy of your book with you, wherever you go. And when someone asks about it, show it off.
Doing so strengthens the connection this potential reader has with you and your book. As he feels the book in his hands and pages through it, as he reads the back cover ��� it���s like he picked the book off the shelf in a brick-and-mortar store or came to the Amazon.com sales page for your title. That connection greatly increases the chances that he later actually will buy your book.
Don���t carry the book in plain sight, of course, as if you were trying to evoke a conversation and wanted to show it off; this approach reeks of the annoying telemarketer. Instead, keep it in your computer bag or briefcase. Only when the book comes up in conversation has the time arrived to drag it out.
And what if you have multiple titles? Your purse certainly isn���t large enough to carry all of them. In that case, download them as ebooks and make sure they���re easy to access in your smartphone or tablet.
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.
&lt;A HREF="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widg... Widgets&lt;/A&gt;
Related articles
Writing Prompt: Make up a Situation
When to promote your book using Twitter
Try these topics for email marketing campaigns - Inventing Reality Editing Service
Recent editing client releases his first novel
March 23, 2017
Editing client publishes her first nonfiction book
A recent 
editing client has published her first book. Monica Di Santi���s ���Fun with Languages: Tips and Tricks to Master Foreign Languages Easily��� is a comprehensive hands-on guide that helps you improve your command of foreign languages, build self-confidence, and understand why you're failing in certain areas beyond your linguistic abilities. Whether you want to learn or brush up on a foreign language quickly and easily, this book is for you. ���Fun with Languages��� is available for preorder with a release date of April 11.
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.
<A HREF="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widg... Widgets</A>
Related articles
Writing Inspiration: Revise and continue
Don't smother writing with your red pen
Editing tip: Learn some literary devices
March 19, 2017
Five Great Quotes about ���Write What You Know���
���...All artists��� 
work is autobiographical. Any writer���s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.��� - Kim Addonizio
���...when I write a book or a story, I...am the only one speaking, no matter how I hide behind my characters.��� - Junot D��az
���Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.��� - Ernest Hemingway
���People say to write about what you know. I���m here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don���t know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don���t be scared, ever. - Toni Morrison
���A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.��� - Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;A HREF="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widg... Widgets&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/A&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;
Related articles
Five Great Quotations for Aspiring Writers
Writing Inspiration: Explore then strive
Five Great Quotations about Story Ideas
March 12, 2017
Five Great Quotations about Craft of Writing
���Book-buyers 
aren���t attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel; book-buyers want a good story to take with them on the airplane, something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.��� - Stephen King
���We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.��� - Ernest Hemingway
���The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.��� - Robert Frost
���Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.��� - Pablo Picasso
���Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.��� - George D. Prentice
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.
&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;A HREF="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widg... Widgets&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/A&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;
Related articles
Five Great Quotations for Aspiring Writers
Five Great Quotations about the Writing Process
Five Great Quotations about Rules of Writing
Make tables readable in your self-published book
