Do-It-Yourself Editing: A Guide For The Ebook Author

by Courage Knight

You finished your book! Now what?
Edit it!
You want to be recognized as a good writer. So, only publish your best work, and then, continue to improve so your best gets even better.
Do It Yourself Editing will guide you through the editing process.
Part One: Structure
First, you'll learn ways to strengthen your plot, improve your story's tempo and develop your characters more fully.
Part Two: Style
Learn once and for all what it means to "show, don't tell" and never make that amateur mistake again. You will learn the right way to use a thesaurus and how to avoid head-hopping.
Part Three: Dialog
No other part of the fiction novel seems to be as fraught with errors as writing dialog. You will learn the right way to write dialect, how to write dialog that is character specific and how to use dialog tags correctly.
Part Four: Mechanics
Here is the nitty-gritty of editing. You'll learn correct punctuation, parts of speech, common grammar gaffes and how to use your word processor's spelling / grammar program correctly.Once you have completed the exercises in this book, your finished story will be ready to share with the world.

178 pages, Paperback

First published April 27, 2015

About the author

Courage Knight is a senior editor at Blushing Books, and the author of more than thirty romance novels. Her most recent release is "Do It Yourself Editing, a Guide for the eBook Author" - a refresher course on grammer, punctuation, plot points, character development, eliminating head hopping, and much more - a must-have tool for the eBook author.

She lives in southwest Michigan, where she enjoys running her sled dog team with her husband of 35 years. She loves winter picnics, hot cocoa, freshly falling snow, toasted marshmallows, and curling up with a great book.

You can share comments with her at courage.knight@yahoo.com.
You can visit her webpage at www.courageknight.com.

Reviews

[Camilia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the perfect desktop companion for any aspiring writer. It covers all the basic of the writing process--what every book should have... plot, structure, etc.-- as well as the basic mechanics of writing fiction and dialog. Too many books get published with silly mistakes that should not happen. That is just a travesty to both authors and editors. English is not an easy language, but it has rules, and they are there for a reason!

Keep writing fun by knowing what to do with at your fingertip guide!