Best I've Come Across Round-up

In a perfect world, this blog would be full of writing and editing tips, research assistance, and all other kinds of good stuff you'd expect an editor to come up with. But the truth is, between editing and cover design gigs and maintaining my first love, my book review blog, I'm just too busy to devote as much time as I'd like to this blog. But I am pretty good at finding resources, tips, and fun stuff and passing them along to my followers on Twitter and Facebook. So I thought I'd compile the best of what I come across on the world wide web every once in a while in a recap post for this blog. Here's the latest:



How to Create Tension Through Misdirection

Is Whom Dying Out?

Stop Turning Verbs Into Nouns!

7 Writing Tips from The Great Gatsby

7 Books Every Writer Should Read

5 Ways To Make Your Novel More Suspenseful

15 Things a Writer Should Never Do

7 Errors Even Good Writers Miss (But good editors don't :)

Historical Fiction Bestsellers: Weeks of May 9 and 16

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USA Today's Top 150 May 9:

    

    

On Craft Quotable: Keep Your Subconscious Busy

When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time—20 years in the case of Imperial Earth, and 10 years in the case of the novel I’m presently working on. So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas. It’s amazing how the subconscious self works on these things. I don’t worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.

~Arthur C. Clarke

Historical Fiction Bestsellers: Week of May 2

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Best I've Come Across Round-up

In a perfect world, this blog would be full of writing and editing tips, research assistance, and all other kinds of good stuff you'd expect an editor to come up with. But the truth is, between editing and cover design gigs and maintaining my first love, my book review blog, I'm just too busy to devote as much time as I'd like to this blog. But I am pretty good at finding resources, tips, and fun stuff and passing them along to my followers on Twitter and Facebook. So I thought I'd compile the best of what I come across on the world wide web every once in a while in a recap post for this blog. Here's the latest:


Free download from Writer's Digest: How to Choose a POV for Your Novel

The Most Enjoyable Way to Improve Your Writing Skills

Knowing When to Stop: Expectations for a Satisfying Ending

Why Would Anyone Use the Chicago Manual of Style?

5 Things You Shouldn't Do When Writing a Book

10 Things Every Writer Should Do in Their Novel

Representing Minorities in Your Writing

Historical Fiction Bestsellers: Week of April 25

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New Book Release: The Remedy

Please join me in congratulating Serena Chase on the release of the second novel in the Eyes of E'veria series! I had the privilege of working with Serena on her debut, The Ryn, and on both a developmental edit and copyedit on the sequel, The Remedy. Here's the book description:

PURPOSED by birth. DESTINED by prophecy. REVEALED by Truth.

Now, her time has come.

Having come to terms with her long-hidden identity, Princess Rynnaia E’veri is ready to take her rightful place. But before she can join her father at Castle Rynwyk, she must endeavor to fulfill a 200-year-old prophecy and defeat the Kingdom’s ancient enemy, the Cobelds. Joined by her faithful knight, Sir Julien de Gladiel, and a gifted group of friends, Rynnaia must trek a dangerous path through canyons, forests, and into the very depths of a mountain where, if the prophetic scrolls prove correct, she will face an unknown foe, alone. Treacheries will be discovered, sacrifices will be made, friends will be lost, and love will be tested, but if even one line of the riddled prophecy is misinterpreted, Rynnaia will fail . . . and the Kingdom will fall.

Beginning at the point THE RYN ended, THE REMEDY concludes an epic re-imagining of the classic Grimm fairy tale, SNOW WHITE & ROSE RED, but the Eyes of E'veria series is only beginning . . .

The Remedy is available now on Amazon for $3.99. Visit Serena's website and check out the blog tours for The Ryn and The Remedy. You can also find Serena at USA Today's romance fiction blog, Happy Ever After, where she is a frequent contributor.

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Historical Fiction Bestsellers: Week of April 18

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On Craft Quotable: A Trifecta of Bradbury

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

~Ray Bradbury