Oct 173 min readValue-added fiction editor: Human vs. machineYou’ve finished your novel. Your draft is complete. Now all you need is a fiction editor . The advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
Sep 242 min readBook-Editing Services: The Benefits of Professional InputEditing is like pruning the rose bush you thought was so perfect and beautiful until it overgrew the garden. (Larry Enright) Working out...
Jul 42 min readAuthors and editors and the art of making it upCreative invention, author-style Fiction is clearly the realm of creative invention, so when authors dream up and plonk neologisms into...
Jun 72 min readNot Losing the Plot The road to unforgettable storytelling. Story is crucial to any novel. It holds a book together, unites characters and subplots, and...
Mar 262 min readEditors: The Seven Deadly MythsReassurance for worried authors. Once in a while, I chat to authors, who mutter darkly about the terrible things they’ve heard about...
Feb 205 min readI hired an editor ... and it changed everythingAnd yes, I’ll definitely be going back to her next time.
Feb 192 min readCPD: Learning something old in a new wayFor those of us who’ve been working in a particular field for a significant length of time, it can be difficult to find training courses...