Category: Publishing
-
To Be An Editor
Most of what I ran across as I gathered information for this topic was in regard to final content of a text prior to publishing such as a book, newspaper or magazine. Editors typically do the following: Read content and correct spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors. In other words, they look for and correct mistakes. Rewrite…
-
Orwell Nailed It
#PrideAndPerjury #JAFF #HistoricalFiction #SelfPublishing “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.” George Orwell First, please note what Orwell did not say. Writing is often intensely enjoyable – even non-fiction. It’s when your enjoyable project turns into a judgeable, sellable, editable book that the illness kicks in… My…
-
Rules of the Road for Regency Language
Writers of Austen-based or broader Regency fiction regularly discuss the use of language by a modern writer for that period. I, too, reflect on my approach—which I considered for quite a while in my historical fiction based on Jane Austen’s life. For general language, I take the actor’s approach when preparing to play an historical…
-
Song of Pemberley
In 2021 I started a novel called ‘Song of Pemberley’ but never finished it. Between selling my house in Texas, packing up everything and moving to Illinois, a number of things fell to the wayside until lately. Now, I’m working on playing catchup, and you know how much fun that is. However, since I am…
-
Ghostwriting and Other Gory Tales
Ghostwriting, and other gory tales ‘Though I prefer first-rate fiction, for the last few years my reading seems to have been concentrated on letters and journals and biographies. It doesn’t bother me to read while I am writing… I mean, I don’t suddenly find another writer’s style seeping out of my pen. Though once, during…
-
An Interrupted Proposal Cover Reveal
Wow! It has been a long time coming, and you have been soooo patient! First, I am really excited to get this book out in print. There have been a few challenges as my life erupted in the past couple months, which has caused some delays, but we are finally coming down to the wire!…
-
Confessions of a Wide Author
Being a wide author means I make my eBooks available worldwide to all customers on all eBook platforms. In addition, I sell eBooks and audiobooks directly to readers and listeners from my own store. That also means that publishing my stories in Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited (KU) program is rarely a choice for me because that…
-
To Epilogue Or Not to Epilogue
As you know, I am preparing my latest work, An Interrupted Proposal, for publishing. It is currently with the editor, but I have also received feedback from readers. One of the requests I received was for an epilogue and it got me thinking. For years, I heard that writers should not write epilogues, but readers…
-
Sailing with Style and Salt Pork: A Look at Regency Packet Ships
In a Jane Austen novel, sea travel usually happens offstage. A letter arrives, Tom Bertram returns, Captain Wentworth is promoted to captain—that sort of thing. But if you lived in Austen’s world and needed to get to the Continent (or the West Indies, or the Cape of Good Hope), you would likely have found yourself…
-
The End of the Road … For the Semi-Colon?!?!
#semi-colon #prideandperjury #historicalfiction Eek!!!!! Is this the end of the road for the semi-colon??? And, if it so, do we care? The Guardian newspaper (see below for link) was this week sounding its death-knell. In brief, usage in the UK has plummeted. (“Its usage in English books plummeting by almost half in two decades –…