by Penny Freeman | Jul 9, 2014 | Inside Marketing
BY BUNNY MINER Blogging and Your Author’s Platform Ok, sound off about how you did with your challenge from my last blog. (crickets chirping). Come on, you can do it. Put yourself out there and add something in the comments after this post on how starting your...
by Penny Freeman | Jun 28, 2014 | Editor's Notes
BY RIE SHERIDAN ROSE I’m Just a Proofreader . . . Nobody Loves Me . . . Okay, maybe that paraphrase of Bohemian Rhapsody is a little silly, but when it comes to the world of editing, the function is often overlooked, and it shouldn’t be. After all the editing of the...
by Penny Freeman | Jun 25, 2014 | Editor's Notes, Writing
BY JESSICA SHEN While plot and character and setting are all well and good (I mean, I GUESS those components are important…) what will really keep your reader up to ungodly hours of the night flipping pages is tension. Tension, conflict, peril—these all compel us to...
by Penny Freeman | Jun 18, 2014 | Inside Marketing
BY CELESTE COX Social Media: The Not So Unfriendly Monster For some of us, and quite possibly all of us writers, social media is a feared concept. An it-must-not-be-named that we promise we will work on, but never really do. It’s the monster you know is living under...
by Penny Freeman | Jun 17, 2014 | Editor's Notes, Writing
BY ELIZABETH GILLILAND We creative types tend to be a bit temperamental when it comes to our work, and for good reason. We’ve put months, years, sweat, blood, tears, and endless buckets of caffeine and chocolate into our projects. They are, in short, our babies. Our...
