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Coursera: The Craft of Plot
Despite being super busy with all my editing, I have decided to revisit the basics and signed up to Coursera's 'The Craft of Plot,' which is a four-week course being taught by Brando Skyhorse, a creative writing professor at Wesleyan University. The course examines...
CE1: Introduction to Copy-editing (SfEP course) completed
I chose to take the Society for Editors and Proofreader's introductory course to copy-editing (while completely bypassing the proofreading course they recommend you start with) and I'm pleased to show off my certificate for doing so. I'm not sure yet if I'll do the...
Introducing our Junior Editor… AKA my son
I was talking to an author recently in need of some young eyes on her children's book, and being the mother of two avid readers, offered the services of my sons. It's doubtful my eldest will read it mind you, despite being a high-level reader, he's not really into...
Advertising and Amazon and stats
This is one of those posts where I witter on about my favourite subject - stats. I love them. Can't get enough of them. So imagine my excitement last night when I clicked on a teensy weensy arrow in my Amazon affiliate area and it told me just how many times the...
How exciting – A letter from America…
Yes, that's right, I got a letter from America, well, technically, it was a package - a book to be precise - but not just any book - Oh, no. This is a book I helped edit. I 'met' the author, R.R.Virdi, in a Facebook writing group when I was starting out editing. In...
Emotion Amplifiers
Anyone I edit for will have heard me wittering on about a book called the Emotion Thesaurus (and if you haven't you will - trust me on that). In my opinion this book is a must have for any writer of fiction. Once upon a time my characters went a little overboard with...
The ‘something new’ is going well
My new way of working - on paper - is producing some great results, so much so that's I've stocked up on black printer ink and A4 white paper. I've also thrown something else into the mix - a couple of programs that will help me develop, analyse, and, in a nutshell,...
BA (Hons) English Literature
I am thrilled - no, ecstatic - no, amazed, that after six years of study with the Open University I have been awarded a 2:1 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in English Literature. It has been a long journey (mostly enjoyable) although there were a few times when I...
Independently (self-published) books / book promotion
It has taken me a while, but through the course of promoting books for free on my other site, and through several engagements with independent authors, I have come to a decision as to what direction to take with this site. While I am keen to continue writing about all...
End of an era…
It's been a long and drawn out process (mainly because I kept changing my mind about what degree to take), but I am pleased to report, that at 1pm, yesterday afternoon, I completed my English Literature BA (Hons) degree. After nine months of studying Shakespeare, and...
February editing plans
I've been a little tied up since the start of the year with University coursework and assignments. The last module of my degree is certainly intense, we're reading and studying a Shakespeare play every two weeks, with an assignment every four. Still, enough about...
Developmental edit completed
I have had the pleasure of reading and feeding back on a young adult dystopian manuscript over the last few days, which as it turns out, is one of my favourite genres within science-fiction - I just can't get enough of them. I've read more of this sub-genre than I've...
Another editing job completed
It took me a little while, but I have just this moment managed to complete another book editing project. I've read the manuscript twice so far, owing to the fact I like to read through it first as a reader, and worry about the editing/feedback side of things during a...
Editing plans: week commencing 9th November
I have a busy few days of editing ahead of me. Having calmed down from my excitement of joining the Society of Editors and Proofreaders, it's time to throw my energy back into editing. I have three projects I want to work on this week: One novel is undergoing a...
Sfep Membership Update
I received a lovely email this morning from the Society for Editors and Proofreaders, confirming my application had been successful and informing me that I am from this moment on an associate member. My next step is to undertake my first training course with them -...