First the bad news: Editing is critical to your success. And no, reading out loud to yourself is not good enough.

Over the course of drafting your book, you’ll likely read it multiple times to perform some rudimentary editing on your own...

You have professional editors, and you have self-revisions, and then you have the third step: beta readers.

These days, you can find a variety of online editing software options that can meet a variety of your editing needs.

Editing is expensive, time consuming, and inevitable. Before you waste your fortune hiring an editor...

Between the writing sprees and the publishing hustle comes one step no writer can escape: editing. Some writers love editing.

Plotting software fills in the niche gap between writing software and editing software and allows you to iron out your novel...

Writing a pitch is a helpful idea for any fiction writer, whether or not you want to go traditional.

I didn’t change much there. The three ghosts, the plot, and Scrooge were untouched. All I did to create the disturbing and uncomfortable...

A personal note: re-writing is currently the hardest, most diabolical part of the writing process for me. It feels like I’m stabbing my...

Please vote for my novel, The Grim Reaper: And Company! on Kindle Scout here: https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/X0Z1F8GSDDVB I recently...

No matter how careful you are editing your own work, things will slip through the cracks. It’s a fact of writing that spans from novice...

All that glitters is 24 karat, pristine gold! They say never to judge a book by its cover, but everyone does that anyway. I remember one...

One of the most challenging parts of writing in the fantasy genre is creating the universe. You could spend years designing the cultures...

Image credit: Sanja Djenero How long should my book be? It’s a silly question, or so it seems. What does length matter so long as the...

A few years ago, I found myself staring tensely at my computer screen, fingers hovering over the keyboard as I wrestled with a problem...

Image credit: Belovodchenko Anton That’s it. I’ve had it. I’ve seen her too many times on the big screen, small screen and in the pages...

Image credit: Cecile Graat Song, poetry, and regional or foreign accents are only a few of the tough calls you have to make in the...

A novel can only be as perfect as the person (or people) who write it, and no matter how incredible a work of fiction can seem, there are...

I’m entering the advanced editing section of my novel, The Automaton of Miss Ada Stirling (currently being released as a JukePop serial...