There’s never been a text written that didn’t need editing. Indeed, I’ll say as Indie authors we have a duty to aim at a high standard, and one way is to ensure that they are edited to a professional standard.

An editor’s primary connection to the book is the manuscript itself. You can edit it yourself time and time again; give it to friends to edit, but you, or they, will not necessarily see the mistakes. They’re not going to approach the text with the kind of eye for detail that a professional editor brings.

I saw a comment recently on Facebook on editing and quote it below:

‘Each individual author is responsible for their own editing and content. I do not want this project to be like those other stuck up compilations who believe only the BEST should be able to submit. The emphases on this very project is…

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The thing about cliches is that every now and then you feel the pressing need to use them, but I won’t do that today. Instead, I will introduce you to a place that you might have been to at one point in time or another. Say like when you were born or when your parents had to take you for shots that they swore would eventually make you better.

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As you can see now, as a parent, grandparent or loved one times haven’t changed much. We are either there visiting someone, or else someone’s visiting us. Today this is where you are, now take a slow soothing breath and then write something.

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W.P. # 55  You are in a hospital.

For a blogger, there’s nothing quite as sweet as gaggles of people getting their knickers in a twist over something.

(Those of you who don’t blog yourselves probably don’t know that the blogging equivalent of Natural Law is a list, called “Things That People Get Very Angry About On The Internet”. Whenever we’re stuck for an idea of something to blog about, we simply refer to this list, a copy of which can be purchased for 6 Emoji and a funny cat picture.)

Knicker-twisting items on the list I’ve written most about are as follows:

1. Book Reviews
2. Book Marketing Abuses
3. Writers Who Think They Don’t Need Editors
4. Writers Who Take Everything Personally
5. Writer Earnings And Complaining Thereof

It’s been a while, so I’m back to Number 1: Book Reviews, as it occurred to me lately that the assignment of a star rating seems to be very much dependent on genre.

Like many other people, I read in different…

Good afternoon readers, another classic book review for you today and it’s one that I didn’t think I would choose to include, but ended up picking up at the library a week or so ago. Some books have a reputation that proceeds them and despite not having to read this during my English Lit days back at school I do remember the groans and grumbles of the class in the ‘other half,’ who found it terribly tiresome and mind-numbing. I had therefore crossed it off my list of books to read. However once I saw in on the shelf in the library, thoughts that I could be missing out on a really good book got the better of me. I’m glad to say I am wonderfully glad I picked this up

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of…

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What is your latest release and what genre is it?Imogene in New Orleans / mystery (traditional)

Quick description: Imogene, the boys, & Goose the bulldog expect parades & pralines on their vacation, but what they get is murder.

Imogene Deal McGregor has lived nearly three-quarters of a century in Alabama. She has a penchant for following her own instincts, as well as more grit and spunk than her hypochondriac son, Billy McGregor, and Billy’s impulsive partner Jackson can handle. The boys take Imogene to New Orleans with their devilishly handsome English bulldog Goose, hoping to visit friends and attend a second line parade, but moments after arriving in the French Quarter, they find their friend Glenway Gilbert murdered in his art gallery. Immediately, Imogene and the boys run into a temperamental and ethically-challenged lieutenant who appears hell-bent on neglecting the crime, compelling them to seek answers themselves…