by wordsywoman | Dec 22, 2020 | Revision and Editing
Some of my line editing clients have loved starting sentences with gerunds, or words ending in “ing.” This is not terrible in itself, but as it is in writing as in everything else, balance is important. And sometimes starting a sentence with a gerund phrase just...
by wordsywoman | Dec 15, 2020 | Writing Craft
This post originally appeared on the Book Marketing Tools Blog on October 20, 2016. Go here to read it. If you’re anything like me, when you read the latest writing magazine edition, you look longingly at the ads promoting retreats to write in beautiful places with...
by wordsywoman | Dec 8, 2020 | Book Marketing
This post originally appeared on the Book Marketing Tools blog with the title, “Get Out of Your Own Way To Market Your Books.” I have something controversial to tell you. You are not required to market your books. Book marketing is a choice, and you are entitled to...
by wordsywoman | Dec 1, 2020 | Revision and Editing
A while back I wrote a blog post about the different levels of editing: developmental editing, copy or line editing, and proofreading. I would now like to refine that advice a bit. I was the sole editor for my publishing company, Legacy Book Press LLC’s,...
by wordsywoman | Nov 24, 2020 | Writing Craft
When I started writing my sequel to Taming the Twisted, starting off with that book’s character’s, Abigail’s, point-of-view, essentially starting where Taming the original left off. I quickly got bored. About seven pages in, I got the idea of writing the book from one...
