Editing angles to improve your writing by Barbara McNichol, nonfiction book editor with offices in Colorado and Arizona
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by Barbara McNichol When attending the annual conference of the National Speakers Association in July/August, I challenged myself to “land” pearls of wisdom for my businss as I sifted through the copious amount of advice. Like drinking from a firehose, it’s never a easy task! Instead, I came away realizing it’s possible to harvest the wisdom of others [...]
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by Barbara McNichol I used to delude myself that watching the pros play their brand of tennis on TV would benefit my own game (even though I didn’t start playing until my 40s). I’m not sure how much technique can be picked up by watching. But what’s even more important to pick up on are [...]
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By Susan Kendrick and Graham Van Dixhorn http://www.BookCoverCoaching.com Editor’s Note: This post has been written by book cover experts Susan Kendrick and Graham Van Dixhorn who are currently judges* (see below) for the Book Cover Category in Dan Poynter’s Global eBook Awards. To assist authors in creating strong titles and back cover marketing copy for their [...]
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By Susan Kendrick and Graham Van Dixhorn http://www.BookCoverCoaching.com Editor’s Note: This post has been written by book cover experts Susan Kendrick and Graham Van Dixhorn who are currently judges* (see below) for the Book Cover Category in Dan Poynter’s Global eBook Awards. To assist authors in creating strong titles and back cover marketing copy for their [...]
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by Lynne Klippel (used with permission) Have you heard the terms Front and Back Matter and been wondering what they mean? Front matter refers to all the pages in a book that come in front of the manuscript. Common components of the front matter include the title page, legal or copyright page, a foreword, dedication, [...]
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by Sam Horn (used with permission) “When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived!” – Anne Frank I have just climbed the steep stairs to the secret annex at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam and I’m now standing in the small room where a young Anne Frank [...]
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by Barbara McNichol As a speaker or author at anystage of creating your book, you already know that having a quality bio is essential to opening the right doors to new opportunities. To help you attract money, clients, and media attention, I invite you to invest an hour listening to an excellent audio interview [...]
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Write. In order to be able to call yourself a writer, all you have to do is write. But I have another piece of advice: Don’t go passing out business cards emblazoned with that word just yet. Malcolm Gladwell is a fascinating writer (one who deserves those business cards) who has an uncanny knack for [...]
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by Barbara McNichol In a recent issue of Writer’s Almanac (a daily dose of poetry and talk about authors) came this excellent piece on Tom Wolfe, author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Monkey Wrench Gang, among others. I include it here because of his 4 devices for bringing readers into a scene–all techniques that [...]
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By Barbara McNichol As hurried electronic messages go flying by, what gets lost? As you listen to multiple news shows, talking heads, and barking sports announcers, what gets lost? The clarity and correctness of our language, something we don’t want to lose (or is it loose?). My antenna crackles in annoyance when incorrect language reaches [...]
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