Don’t you just hate it when you see a typo in work you’ve just published, posted on a website or sent to a client? Creative Commons image: Wikihow Every writer needs to learn how to proofread. As a professional editor for over 30 years, I have a few favourite techniques for effective proofreading. Here are […]
Wikimedia Commons I’m it, twice! I was tagged by two different bloggers for “My Writing Process” blog tour: Mohana Rajakumar and Autumn Birt. Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar In this tour, I have to answer four questions about what, why and how I write, then link to the bloggers that tagged me and tag two (or three, depending […]
Author Helen Hanson describes her writing as “thrillers for geeks” There’s a certain geek factor in all thrillers. Many thriller authors write loving descriptions of cars, guns, bullets, bombs, or bullets. I have read several descriptions by different authors about how a bullet bounces around inside a skull and precisely what it does to […]
Hi. I’m Harry Widdifield. I’ve written both as myself and as Sevastian Winters. I don’t often do guest posts like this anymore, but on a whim, I decided to put this out there. Maybe you’ll see some value in it. When asking me to do this post, Scott asked me to consider the answers to […]
It baffles me that there are still authors, intelligent professionals who want to reach an audience, yet who do not use the most effective and cheapest way of doing that — ebooks. Last Saturday, I participated in the first Ottawa Book Fest held by the National Capital branch of the Canadian Authors Association. While it wasn’t […]
The first Canadian Authors Association National Capital Region Book Fest is wrapping up a little early, and that means exactly what you think it means: it’s been disappointing. Not the content. I enjoyed meeting fellow authors, comparing notes, swapping experiences. But the traffic, the number of potential readers and book buyers that came through, was […]
Today, I’m participating in the first (annual) Book Fest organized by the National Capital Region chapter of the Canadian Authors Association. The picture shows me at my half-table with my little display of books. This is the first time I’ve done anything like this. The doors opened an hour ago, and it’s been quiet so […]