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Editor appearing at Author Meet & Mingle

You’ll be able to meet west-central Wisconsin authors – including yours truly – at the Author Meet & Mingle on Tuesday, May 12, at the LE Phillips Memorial Library in downtown Eau Claire, Wis.

The event, cohosted by the Friends of the Library and the Wisconsin Historical Society, is part of the Wisconsin History Tour. Prior to the event, a Writers Forum, featuring Michael Perry, Jerry Apps, and John Hildebrand, will be held across the street at the Eau Claire Regional Arts Center (The State Theater) beginning at 10 a.m. Other events are planned following the Author Meet & Mingle.

Books from Wisconsin authors will be available for sale at the Author Meet & Mingle, with 10 percent of the proceeds going to The Friends of the Library. The Author Meet & Mingle runs from noon to 1 p.m.

Need an editor? Having your book, business document or academic paper 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. Whether you come from a big city like El Paso, Texas, or a small town like Wanderoos, Wisconsin, I can provide that second eye.

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In paperbacks, drop caps are a nice touch giving your book a professional, sophisticated appearance. Unfortunately, those drop caps don’t translate well to ebooks, especially Kindle. 

The main problem is that Kindle’s software doesn’t support text wrapping features, so the text won’t fit around larger font-sizes or pictures of capital letters. Instead, the drop cap either loses its larger font size or appears out of place. In addition, any graphic or photo that you use which includes a capital letter won’t resize if the reader changes the font size of the letters on their ereader.

This is not to say that you can’t have drop caps – just that you are somewhat limited in what you can do with them.

For example, you make the first letter of a line slightly larger than the rest of the letters in a paragraph simply by adding some coding that makes. Specifically, if the first word of your sentence were Imagine, you would add this code:

Imagine 

At the end of the paragraph, you’ll need to add this tag:

This then makes the “I” or the first letter of your sentence boldface and slightly larger than the rest of the text and allows it to resize should a reader change the displayed text’s font size.

Need an editor? Having your book, business document or academic paper 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. Whether you come from a big city like Kansas City, Missouri, or a small town like Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, I can provide that second eye.

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“Begin with an individual and you find that you have created a type; begin with a type and you find that you have created - nothing.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Supporting players should serve one of two purposes in a story. They either help or hinder the main character. They are allies or irritants. If they aren’t one or the other, what are they doing in the story except taking up space?” - James Scott Bell

“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.” - Mary Higgins Clark

“Writers are always selling somebody out.” - Joan Didion

“When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” - Kurt Vonnegut

Need an editor? Having your book, business document or academic paper 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. Whether you come from a big city like Cleveland, Ohio, or a small town like Roachtown, Illinois, I can provide that second eye.

 

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Hypothesis is singular, as in The study’s results proved the first hypothesis to be true.

Hypotheses is plural, as in Researchers weighed competing hypotheses to determine which one merited testing.

A side note: In science, a hypothesis is a proposed explanation. It is tested and then the test(s) are duplicated by other scientists. Once several hypotheses supporting a theory are proven to be true, then the theory is thought to be true, at least in principle, as well.

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To that end, try this tip: Journaling often best unveils truths about oneself when it answers a thought-provoking question. If you’re uncertain what to write about, try these questions to kick start your entry: What have I given up on? When did I last step out of my comfort zone? If I could give a newborn one piece of advice that would stick with him/her forever, what would it be? Note: What you write also might become the kernel for a great book idea!

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Among the most common novice writers formatting their ebooks run into is including headers, footers and page numbers in their manuscript. Unfortunately, this often leads to the book’s title, author’s name, and page numbers appearing in the middle of the text on an ereader.

There’s no need to include any headers, footers or page numbers in a manuscript formatted for an ebook. The software used to translate your formatted manuscript into a format readable on an ebook won’t treat the headers and footers as would your Microsoft Word program.

In any case, you don’t need to include a header indicating the book’s title in an ebook. At least with Kindle, the software that translates your formatted manuscript automatically places the title at the top of the ereader screen.

In addition, page numbers are superflous in an ebook, as readers can adjust the text’s font and point size, and hence change how many words appear on a screen before the “page” has to be turned.

If reformatting your Word manuscript for a paperback into an ebook, always delete all of the headers, footers and page numbers from the document.

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