How can you bring your enticing, well-prepared story to the attention of more prospective readers? Your author’s website is your storefront, and the world is full of story shoppers. At the same time, not all window shoppers become readers, and it takes more than just exposure and savvy pricing. Highly specialized markets require specific language […]
For those of you who have always been told, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” this post is for you! We all want our work to be compensated for its value provided. Making sure that your investment of time and knowledge is met with reward is not always easy in markets driven […]
Top quality novel and book editing is done most efficiently when an editor understands and can generalize methods used by those who specialize in process development. Test-driven development, or “drafting” over and over, gained popularity among software developers and project managers as a means of building quality assurance before beginning to build any product. This […]
Twenty years ago, who would have thought that people would come to trust sensitive machines? Dating back further than Milgram’s 1960 experiments, the automation of large-group compliance has been studied and followed. Trust-building phenomena, although initially thought to develop out of delicate emotional processes, has been extensively researched and broken down into process components by […]
This post is primarily for my clients who have book manuscripts in progress and for those who are now published authors. Feel free to connect with me again and let me know how you are doing! Have you celebrated your publication already, and have you thought about holding a virtual book launch? Reach more people […]
Our changing world provides society with a kaleidoscope of demands. In some ways, this is very good for business. All of the buzzwords are there: war on terrorism, reconstruction efforts, security threats, global interdependence, aging population, medical epidemics, economic crises, environmental issues, etc. In a successful economic system, long-range financial outlooks determine what can be […]
Welcome to the detailed and colorful world of engineers. For example, consider the life of a software engineer where the figurative food is Java, the drink is SQL, and the pastime is C++ (never mind that we can never separate the life of a programmer from Internet usage). Where freelancing begins, the passion of an […]
What story-line dialog could require more credibility than reaching those alleged to communicate less often than others? Recent adventures in humanoid robotics and utility have explored into the direction of social skills and autistic children. Studies are showing that these children may be more interested in the robots than are average children; “surprise,” quite possibly, […]
Bring compellingly real content into the hearts, minds, and lives of your readers! Connect with your readers by making sure that your written content, mixed with facts or pure fantasy, comes across clearly in your writing. Move your written work to the next level, so you can make your words effective and more marketable while […]
Do you want to see how I might write with personal style and clarity on my own time? Then you have come to the right place. This blog is not designed to inform authors for whom I work; far from it—as an editor, I have the pleasurable opportunity to work alongside my most talented clients […]