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The Editor in your Pocket: Fix your fiction with style
You’ve finished writing your story. Well done! Now wouldn’t it be handy to have an editor on call—in your pocket—to make it shine and sparkle?
As a professional fiction editor since 2009, Grace knows the common mistakes writers make. In this short guide, she shares her insights on how to avoid these errors and write with clarity, precision, and elegance.
Hook your readers, editors, publishers, and the world by using language correctly. Use this guide while you self-edit and learn principles to accompany you as you improve your writing and style for the next book!
Following these tips could save you hundreds of dollars when you hire an editor. Help your submissions stand out from the slush pile, impress agents and editors in the publishing industry, and forge a smooth path for your story to connect with your audience through your words.
As a professional fiction editor since 2009, Grace knows the common mistakes writers make. In this short guide, she shares her insights on how to avoid these errors and write with clarity, precision, and elegance.
Hook your readers, editors, publishers, and the world by using language correctly. Use this guide while you self-edit and learn principles to accompany you as you improve your writing and style for the next book!
Following these tips could save you hundreds of dollars when you hire an editor. Help your submissions stand out from the slush pile, impress agents and editors in the publishing industry, and forge a smooth path for your story to connect with your audience through your words.
133 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 28, 2024
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Grace Bridges
61 books107 followersGrace Bridges is a geyser hunter, cat herder, editor and translator, and Kiwi. A former longtime president of writers' organisation SpecFicNZ and Chair of GeyserCon, New Zealand's 40th national science fiction and fantasy convention held in Rotorua in 2019, she is often found poking around geothermal sites or under a pile of rescued kittens. She is a two-time winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand, a founding member of Realm Makers, an editor and mentor for Young NZ Writers, and has edited dozens of published books including many anthology projects. Her own published books include Irish cyberpunk, a shared-world space opera project, and the Earthcore urban fantasy series based in New Zealand. More information and free stories at www.gracebridges.kiwi.
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March 2, 2024
Supremely Helpful Pocket Guide
I wasn't entirely sure what to expect when I picked up this book, but I was quite pleased. It's about an hour-long read, give or take, depending on your reading speed. The book covers a number of common issues to pay attention to when self-editing so you can present your editor with a super clean manuscript. Reading it honestly made me cringe at the manuscript I gave to my editor. It was very eye-opening! I look forward to implementing this advice and hopefully becoming a better writer because of it.
I wasn't entirely sure what to expect when I picked up this book, but I was quite pleased. It's about an hour-long read, give or take, depending on your reading speed. The book covers a number of common issues to pay attention to when self-editing so you can present your editor with a super clean manuscript. Reading it honestly made me cringe at the manuscript I gave to my editor. It was very eye-opening! I look forward to implementing this advice and hopefully becoming a better writer because of it.
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