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The most difficult part of writing is writing

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Fairchild and Midnight are my two writer buddies. They supply inspiration. The Muse likes them.

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Digital cover for my eleventh book: Wings of the Dawn, historical fiction about a former slave who leaves New Orleans in 1853 to join the overland migration to California. She seeks to escape her past and slavery. Her journey becomes one of transformation.

4/26/2013 0 Comments

Publish the Book

What’s Wrong with my Manuscript? The importance of good editing

Whether you go traditional or indie, you have to have written and re-written the book many times and then have a good editor look at it and make corrections.  A good reference book for checking whether you are making the standard mistakes all writers make at first is by Jessica Page Morrell called Thanks, But This Isn’t For Us.  Study it. She goes over all the reasons agents and editors reject a manuscript and how to correct what is wrong . After you have done all you can, hire a good editor to edit the book before you send it out.  If you don’t have the money, get someone to proof it at least.  When you send a manuscript off, it has to be your very best effort.

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    I'm a serious writer, meaning I have a regular daily writing habit, and I'm interested in sharing my work through publication.  My favorite literary form is the novel. I write to entertain myself and my readers.

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