All Blog Posts Tagged 'Publishing' (7)

I want to take this opportunity to thank Authors.com for accepting my request to join this group.  It is an invaluable resource for booklovers everywhere.

I can't quite believe it. One year in the writing of this story and I was finally able today to type the words THE END on my second book. I now feel like a writer. It shouldn't have taken a year to write but if you work for a living then writing has to play second fiddle to life's priorities. But still a year is ok.

It's a remarkable feeling to finally grasp the end of the story. To know that the story has a beginning, middle and an end. That the idea you started out with, might have…

Yesterday a new person joined my Facebook page because they love my Knights of Camelot series. It's a strange feeling that my words have whizzed all the way over to the US and touched someone enough to prompt them to take such action. I am so deeply touched by the effort and kindness. I also amazed that other people out there love my boys as much as me!

I write in a genre that encourages contact with people who enjoy world building as much as the author - we are often referred to as…

Rob (our Marketing Coordinator) and I just returned to the office from packing up the crates to go to ICRS (International Christian Retailers Show) in Atlanta next month! We are very excitied.  this will be our first time at the show.  We are anxious to present our company and our authors to a segemnt of the book market that has been hard to break in to, but are beginning to notice us.

It's a bit of a gamble.  We elected not to attend BEA (Book Expo America) this year in…

Join Steve Drennon over at his site "Adventures In Writing" where he sits down to chat with Australian Author Dean Mayes (The Hambledown Dream) to discuss Dean's writing journey, his writing style and what it takes to produce an engaging reading experience.

You can find the interview here

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This is the final leg of what has become an unintended trilogy on the book editing profession, and while it might appear to be blantantly self-promoting, I hope it at least will shed a little light on the book-doctoring discipline.

A Need for Definition



A few months ago I published an article I was asked to write that explained the different phases of book editing: critiques, copy/line editing, and developmental editing. I also provided a range…