I recently had the honor of being an industry judge for Writing Battle. Writing Battle is a competition that writers pay a small fee to enter. They are given prompts and a short deadline; then they write a very short story based on their prompts before pitting their story against others in duels. Judges provide […]
Last week I posted about how over the moon I was about the cover reveal for Carcrash Parker by Ian M. Rogers, a book I copyedited earlier this year for Vine Leaves Press. Today I want to talk a bit about why I love this book so much. Like the many pop culture tales it
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We editors tend to get attached to the manuscripts we work on. It’s hard not to after spending weeks (sometimes months) inside characters’ heads. It can sometimes be jarring when we later see the cover of a book… even when it’s a good one. That mental world we’ve spent so much time in is given
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Today is the release day for not one, but TWO books I worked on! The first is “Found and Lost: The Jake and Cait Story” written by Howard Lovy and published by Vine Leaves Press. I’m usually not one for love stories, but this book gripped my heart in a way few books have. I
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For over a year now I’ve been editing a D&D guide for my client Erin Hunt Rado. Erin has spent a lot of time making her universe playable in D&D. The result is this guide, which has new character subclasses, spells, items, deities, races, NPCs, monsters, and more, all taken from her Tales of the
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Last week I discussed commas and how to properly use them for pauses versus parentheticals. This week I want to elaborate a bit more on the parentheticals. Here’s my parenthetical example from last week: “His mother, Kathleen, bakes the best cakes.” The commas work here because he has only one mother. This can be applied
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A common mistake I see people make in their writing is leaving out the second comma in parenthetical/nonrestrictive/nonessential words, phrases, or clauses. I’m referring to that extra info that could be removed from a sentence without changing its meaning, which is often up to the writer to determine. Here’s an example: “His mother, Kathleen, bakes
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I recently spent some time updating my website’s portfolio page. If anyone wants to see a (mostly) comprehensive list of books I’ve worked on, just click on the Portfolio tab at the top of this website. There are some missing because some publishers would be breaking NDAs by allowing me to publicly state that I
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Last week I posted about the hyphenation table in CMOS 18. This week I want to talk about why it matters. I recently finished reading a book I very much enjoyed, but one chapter halfway through took me out of the otherwise engrossing read. There was a certain term used throughout this chapter that wasn’t
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A book I copyedited releases today! If you like gothic horror and need a quick read, look no further than “Woman in the Abbey” by Mike Maggio. You can order directly from the publisher, Vine Leaves Press, here: https://vineleavespress.myshopify.com/products/woman-in-the-abbey-by-mike-maggio Timothy
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