Grammar Underground
MAY 15, 2023
With regularity” may be the worst assault against my prose yet. For starters, skilled editors know that, in publishing, conciseness is a virtue. They can turn prose into a night of the living dead.” And in that role, I am, from time to time, the victim of editorial malpractice. So what’s so bad about “with regularity”?
Freelance Writing Jobs
JULY 7, 2023
Shooter Flash: Monthly Shooter Flash spotlights bitesize brilliance with one winning story each month, which we publish online (plus in an annual anthology) and trumpet on social media. Danuta Gleed’s first collection of short fiction, One of the Chosen, was posthumously published by BuschekBooks. The editors will judge.
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Freelance Writing Jobs
JULY 7, 2023
Shooter Flash: Monthly Shooter Flash spotlights bitesize brilliance with one winning story each month, which we publish online (plus in an annual anthology) and trumpet on social media. Danuta Gleed’s first collection of short fiction, One of the Chosen, was posthumously published by BuschekBooks. The editors will judge.
The Subversive Copy Editor
AUGUST 20, 2021
Hart is the author of Storycraft , now in its second edition, and the newly published Wordcraft , both available from the University of Chicago Press. I’m also convinced that it produces unoriginal prose that’s much stiffer and more cramped. That indeed proved to be the case. A.
The Creative Penn
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
In the intro, Amazon changes ebook return policy [ Society of Authors ]; Spotify introduces audiobooks [ Spotify ; FindawayVoices ; Publishing Perspectives ]; Neal Stephenson on The Sword Guy podcast. I use Publisher Rocket for researching book titles, categories, and keywords — for new books and for updating my backlist. Show Notes.
The Creative Penn
JULY 31, 2023
In the intro, Draft2Digital acquires SelfPubBookCovers ; Different types of creative energy [ Self Publishing Advice ]; Twitter becomes X [ The Verge ]; TikTok text posts [ The Verge ]; What AI can help you do in 30 mins [ Ethan Mollick ]; Discovery Writing with ChatGPT by J. Joanna: Ah, 2014. So I'm glad we finally got here.
The Creative Penn
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. I had a bunch of publishing contracts, and they all went very badly. I don't know if I can release this book any better than these publishers, but I know for sure I can release them just as bad. You're kind of one of my gurus at the moment.
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