When I started working as a freelancer, my first few jobs were for a publisher. I had the security of knowing that everything I touched was guaranteed to make it into print — security I needed as I worked to build my resume — and I knew that I’d be earning the same fixed rate [...]
I’ve gone this long without a grammar/punctuation post, but I’ve decided that it’s time for one. Dialog interrupted by narration seems to be a very common punctuation sticking point. Since it’s something I often find myself correcting, I thought it would make a good introductory technical tip. The rule for inserting narration into dialog is [...]
Since my last post, I’ve had the privilege of editing galleys for one of the books I’ve worked on. While the process of editing galleys isn’t an exciting one, it means that the book is on its way to the printing press, and that’s always exciting! With that in mind, I thought I’d offer a [...]
Since I frequently work in the fantasy genre, and since I’m something of a gamer and a geek by hobby, fantasy elements are bound to creep into these posts fairly regularly. With that in mind, Monday’s post seems like a good segue into the introduction of one of my favorite terms, as well as a [...]
The hardest kind of editing is self-editing. You will always find things you want to tweak, things you want to change, maybe even some sneaky little errors that your eye skipped over the first ten times through. The hardest part of self-editing is knowing when to stop editing. Know the difference between things that are [...]
