by Ali | Apr 10, 2017 | Publishing
Why Your Self-Published Book Needs a Professional Cover One of the two crucial things that indie / self-publishing authors should pay for is cover design. (The other is editing.) Here are six different covers. Which ones do you think are self-published? (All of these...
by Ali | Mar 18, 2017 | Fiction
Why Novellas are Making a Comeback (and Five Great Posts for Novella-Writers) A couple of weekends ago, I headed off on an overnight writing retreat and started work on a new fiction project. This is the first time in more years than I care to count (nine, yikes) that...
by Ali | Mar 13, 2017 | Fiction
Everything You Need to Know About Writing Great Dialogue I’ve written a fair amount about dialogue over the past few years … partly because I love writing dialogue! And I figured it was about time I collated those posts in one place. Whether you enjoy dialogue...
by Ali | Feb 14, 2017 | Editing
Is it OK to Use Swear Words in Your Writing? Swearing. Cussing. Strong / bad / foul language. Whatever you want to call it … can you use it in your writing? Yes. It’s your writing, and you can do whatever you want! Of course, there are reasons you might decide...
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by Ali | Jan 30, 2017 | Editing
Ten Book-Level Mistakes to Watch Out for When Redrafting Your Fiction [With Examples] A few weeks ago, I posted about sentence-level mistakes: ones that are easy to spot from a page or a paragraph of writing. Even if you write flawless prose, though, it’s possible to...
