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March 30, 2018
The Dangers of Premature Editing: Pruning Our Stories vs. Pillaging Them…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
By Kirsten Lamb: Editing is essential for crafting a superlative story. We clip away the excess, delete the superfluous and prune away the detritus to reveal the art. Yet, editing…
By Kirsten Lamb: Editing is essential for crafting a superlative story. We clip away the excess, delete the superfluous and prune away the detritus to reveal the art. Yet, editing…
March 28, 2018
PLOT HOLES AND POT HOLES: 8 COMMON MISTAKES READERS HATE—AND HOW TO FIX THEM…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
by Ruth Harris on Anne R Allen site: We all come face to face with them, those pesky glitches, oopsies, OMGs and WTFs that ruin a story, turn a reader…
by Ruth Harris on Anne R Allen site: We all come face to face with them, those pesky glitches, oopsies, OMGs and WTFs that ruin a story, turn a reader…
March 14, 2018
The Kind of Writers’ Conference I’ll Pay For!
What’s not to like about writers’ conferences? They offer terrific opportunities to learn about the craft of writing and the business of publishing from people who know what they’re talking about (as opposed to the neighbor who figures your book … Continue reading →
February 26, 2018
Common Book Marketing Traps to Avoid…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
By Penny C. Sansevieri on Book Works: There’s a ton of information out there for indie authors. However, there is also a lot of misinformation, too, as well as outright…
By Penny C. Sansevieri on Book Works: There’s a ton of information out there for indie authors. However, there is also a lot of misinformation, too, as well as outright…
February 22, 2018
Copyright Infringement Issues: Internet Archive Still at It
Victoria Strauss at Writer Beware follows up with her account of how she got Internet Archive to take down her copyrighted books. In her case, as in mine, it took a stern comment on their web site to get action, … Continue reading →
February 13, 2018
Those Annoying Hyphens!
Here, from Life in the Realm of Fantasy via Chris the Story Reading Ape is an extremely helpful article about something that DRIVES ME NUTS. Not whether to hyphenate, but why so many indie writers don’t use hyphens when they … Continue reading →
February 9, 2018
Anne R. Allen on How to Kill Book Sales
I’ve often found great advice on Anne’s site. This post about what readers are likely to find when they click on that “Look Inside” invitation on Amazon echoes one I recently did about the first page of your book and … Continue reading →
February 6, 2018
Clauses and Conjunctions–Oh, My!
I came across this nice post from Deborah Lee Luskin over at Live to Write—Write to Live that lays out the rules governing various kinds of clauses and the conjunctions that attach them to each other. What this post supplies … Continue reading →
January 28, 2018
Follow-Up: Copyright Issues at Internet Archive—The Marrakesh Treaty
If you have read my posts about my experience eliciting a response from the Internet Archive, which scans and posts books on their free website without notifying authors or asking permission, you may have also read the comments on the … Continue reading →
January 27, 2018
A Response about Copyright Violation from Internet Archive!
Hello, readers, I need your help. On January 11, 2018, I shared a post from Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware about possible copyright infringement by the Internet Archive, which scans books and posts them for free in a “lending library” … Continue reading →
