Editing, Writing & publishing Archives

The Ultimate Guide to Worldbuilding in Fiction Writing

Is What Makes Good Writing Just an Opinion?

How to See Edits in Word Documents

Finding an Editor You Can Trust

Writing Historical Fiction: An Author Interview

How to Use Present Participles Correctly at the Beginning of a Sentence

An Interview With Author Catherine Ryan Hyde

How to Put Your Book on Goodreads

Watch for the Difference Between a Present Participle and a Gerund, also a Participle Adjective

3 Little-Known Writing Mistakes: Avoid them and Improve Your Prose

5 Mistakes in Writing Backstory or Delivering Information in Fiction

8 Steps to Answering the Question, Is My Book Any Good?

Do We Put a Comma Before ‘Too’ or ‘Either’ at the End of a Sentence?

Writing Good Dialogue – Use Subtext

Limited-edition, Collector’s Item NFT Ebooks Available Now

The Sorry Tale of Jason’s First Book

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Fantasy Book Review: The High Priestess by Val Tobin

The High Priestess: Persephone’s Return is the third book in Val Tobin’s Tales from the Unmasqued World Series, and in it she deepens and expands the stories from the previous two book. The book has two central story arcs based around characters we’ve met before. One arc follows Kelsey (a human) who is with Josh […]