Editor’s Notes: Making Your Passion Pay

by | Nov 18, 2013 | Editor's Notes

A Beginner’s Guide to Copywriting, Ghostwriting, and Freelance Work BY ELIZABETH GILLILAND So you’ve decided to be a writer, brave soul. Doubtless, several helpful relatives/friends have stepped in to inform you that you’ll never make any money doing so. The bad news?...

Featured Friday: Steampunk Shakedown

by | Nov 8, 2013 | Featured Friday

WHAT IS STEAMPUNK BY SCOTT E. TARBET This article is reposted by permission from the author’s website. Quick—the girl to the left. What’s her deal? If you guessed, “She’s a Goth,” with all that entails, you could be excused. Likewise if you guessed she was into...

Editor’s Notes: The Grammar Trap

by | Nov 7, 2013 | Editor's Notes, Writing

BY TERRI WAGNER As writers, we often get bogged down in grammar issues when we are actually trying to focus on content. As a result, both our content and our grammar suffer. I know you have read pieces of work that were on target with grammar, and the content was...

Editor’s Notes: What’s In A Name

by | Oct 30, 2013 | Editor's Notes, Writing

BY MCKENNA GARDNER Character names tell a story just as much as the choices the characters make and the events going on around them. As an author, it is your responsibility to create strong, believable characters, and a very important aspect of those characters is...