Editing angles to improve your writing by Barbara McNichol, nonfiction book editor with offices in Colorado and Arizona
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by Martha Yudkin Recently someone asked for advice on pepping up a “really boring topic.” “Hmm, like typos? Would that be a boring topic?” “Definitely.” I invited this person to go see my write-up on typos at www.yudkin.com/typos.htm, which happens to be one of my more popular pages. The subject comes to life [...]
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by Wendy Keller, Literary Agent www.KellerMedia.com Vicki and I were sitting in a charming but crowded coffee shop in Santa Monica. She’s been a writer for the Tony Robbins organization for the decade plus I’ve known her, and she writes for several of my best selling clients, too. She said respectfully, “Tony’s a perfectionist. He [...]
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By Barbara McNichol My attention was recently drawn to an article in Ragan Report (great resource for communicators) that puts the “Top 25 Grammar and Language Mistakes” in your face. Some, in fact, are Word Trippers that I include in my ebook. This handful of grammar glitches stood out for me. I’m eager to point [...]
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by Sam Horn, author of POP! Create the Perfect Pitch, Title and Tagline for Anything! (Penguin-Perigee, 2009 – “A fun lively guide to getting heard, getting remembered, getting results.”-Ken Blanchard) (used by permission – excerpted from www.SamHornPOP.wordpress.com) “Avoid clichés like the plague.” – Samuel Goldwyn Phil Jackson, former coach of the Chicago Bulls, got exasperated [...]
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by Barbara McNichol Multiple-titled author Rebecca Morgan shared her expertise on how to blog a book on a teleseminar, and the great information overflowed! Among her “nuggets,” Rebecca suggests not looking at your book as the “endgame.” Instead, use it to support the business you want to build. Make the book you produce from blogging one of many aspects of your [...]
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Think back to the days when authors pecked out their manuscripts on manual typewriters and retyped whole pages to make their changes. They dealt with reams of paper-based research organized (or not) in manila folders and spread over an expansive space. Now, authors rely on computers to research, organize, and craft (change/edit/rewrite) their manuscripts. Yet [...]
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by Katie Steigman (used by permission from Greenleaf Book Group) Publishers receive quite a few memoirs, a good number of self-help books, and, unfortunately, far too many that straddle the line between the two. There is a natural tendency to take an inspirational story and try to weave lessons into it, but the problem is [...]
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By Rebecca Morgan (used with permission) I’m the author of 25 non-fiction books, 17 of them from blog postings. Previously, I had written four books and co-wrote four others. Two of my books have become bestsellers, having sold more than 200,000 copies each and translated into nine languages. One landed me on Oprah, 60 Minutes, [...]
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Here’s a great idea for celebrating National Punctuation Day this year. Write a haiku poem and enter a Haiku Contest. Winning entries will receive a plethora of punctuation goodies from the day’s founder, Jeff Rubin. How do you enter the contest? Send your best Haiku 5-7-5 (syllables, that is) poetry to Jeff@NationalPunctuationDay.com by September 30 to [...]
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Everywhere we turn, someone’s doing an Extreme Makeover—a house, a wardrobe, an image, a website—enough to make your head spin. I joined that “makeover spin” after reviewing Nancy Juetten’s Bye-Bye Boring Bio guide and “re-spun” my own bio (see end of this ezine). Her templates and examples guided my process and their instant “ease of [...]
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