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March 31, 2016

My Thoughts About Room by Emma Donoghue (Book Review #93) — BONGBONGBOOKS

Living so much to it’s hype, I enjoyed this book so much. Well that is an understatement considering how many times I have to stop and feel a lot of the book’s emotionally moving sentences. Written by Irish-born Canadian writer Emma Donoghue, Room is about a young woman, kidnapped when she was 19 years old […]

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March 31, 2016

[Review] Chewy Noh and the Phantasm of Winter (Chewy Noh, #2) by Tim Learn — B O O K W O R M A N I A C

Title: Chewy Noh and the Phantasm of Winter Author: Tim Learn Publication: July 15th 2016 Genre: Middle Grade, Fantasy Pages: 312 Format: Paperback Chewy Noh has many problems. Besides his mom becoming a mu-dang—a Korean fortune-teller possessed by his dead grandmother who can read minds—the school bully, Kent, is still on the warpath to get Chewy […]

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March 23, 2016

The Stages of Writing a Book – Infographic…

Source: Author Michelle Griep

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March 21, 2016

Review: My Life Next Door

Review My Life Next Door Description “One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time.”  The Garretts are everything t…

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February 29, 2016

How to Optimize Your Amazon Author Central Page…

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February 23, 2016

Some Useful Tips from IBP’s Editor

self-editing

There are a few things for authors to do before sending manuscripts to an editor.

If you have your manuscript ready and wanting to it edited by a professional editor, you might want to read this post further to see if your manuscript is really ready  to be sent to an editor because there are certain things you, as the author, should do before you seek an editor’s help. 

We asked our editor to share some useful tips for authors so that they could double check their work before sending it out to an editor. 

1) The biggest mistake comes in the form of commas. People don’t know how to use them. They should read this page before deciding their manuscript is ready for review:
2) Put the manuscript away for 2 weeks, then proofread it again. Their brain will be fresh and able to better see mistakes and the odd word here and there that the spell-checker missed.
3) Numbers seem to be confusing, also. Never start a sentence with a written number. 0-9. It takes the brain a moment to see a number after getting used to letters. It puts a bump in the reader’s attention.
4) Ages written out with letters or numbers have dashes.
Two-years-old / 2-years-old
not
two years old / 2 years old
5) Research any information given as facts. A detective cannot work outside his/her jurisdiction without permission from local PD. Someone coming from L.A. cannot just walk into Chicago and arrest someone. Call a police station in the area to be worked and ask to talk with someone in media relations. Let them know you are writing a fictional story and you need clarification on protocols. Explain what your character is doing. Ask if their city allows the action. If you know you will have more questions later on, ask for someone’s name and direct number so you can contact them again.
6) Weapons -research your weapon. An AK-47 does not use buckshot.
7) Never use the Tab button to indent the start of a paragraph. Set up your paragraphs from the Paragraph Dialog Box. YouTube has lots of how-to videos for different types of writing programs. Go to YouTube and search ‘paragraph dialog box’ and find one for the program you use. It’s very easy to use these boxes.
February 19, 2016

#NewBook Amber Wake by PS Bartlett (@PSB

#NewBook Amber Wake by PS Bartlett (@PSBartlett) and Ronovan Hester (@RonovanWrites) Pirates, collaborations and more.

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February 19, 2016

Dictating a Book? Tips for Editing the First Draft

To read this informative article by Corina Koch MacLeod and Carla Douglas, Click on the link or their photo below: dictating-a-book-tips-for-editing-the-first-draft/

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February 15, 2016

How Not To Ask For A Free Review – From A Top 1000 Amazon Reviewer

From the Editor-in-Chief at Self-Publishing Review Click on the link or Cate’s photo below to see what turns Reviewers off: How Not To Ask For A Free Review – From A Top 1000 Amazon Reviewer

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February 12, 2016

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