Journey Through My Profession: Creativity by Me for Me
I had zero intentions of becoming a published author. My 2024 editor-author and coaching journeys changed my mind.
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Story Tropes and I: A Match Made in Queer Romance Heaven
I don’t see tropes at blinders to my writing. If anything, they give me a whole new set of tools with which to build my stories.
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Virtual Conference for Queer Romance Writers
A Queer Romance Writers Virtual Conference would provide an opportunity to connect genre authors across time zones to share and mingle with other publishing professionals.
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Queer Romance Writing Courses and Writing Workshops
Queer Romance Writing Courses and Writing Workshops: How to Help Queer Romance Authors Succeed Photo by Pixabay on Pexels This week’s blog initially was going to focus on adapting romance writing courses and writing workshops to queer romance. I’d read Jennifer Probst’s Write Naked: A Bestseller’s Secrets to Writing Romance &
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Being a Full-Time Author Isn’t Easy
Being a Full-Time Author Isn’t Easy (But It’s Not Impossible) Photo by Darius Bashar on Unsplash A full-time author isn’t the tortured soul penning out their tale in a barely lit basement with nothing but cobwebs for company. Being a career author, too, isn’t just taking your headphones and writing implements
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Self-Publishing Responsibilities of Queer Romance Authors
Self-publishing a queer romance novel looks easy. There’s actually a lot more work to it than you may believe. Queer romance authors should take their responsibilities for producing quality work.
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Creating Writing Spaces for Queer Romance Authors
Residencies, retreats, and conferences abound in the publishing world. Very few of them are dedicated to queer authors writing queer romance. I touch on a few different options that can tangibly change this.
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How I Found My Fiction Story Coaching and Editor Mentors
My fiction story coach and fiction editor mentors have played a huge role in my entrepreneurial journey thus far. Here’s where I found them.
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Finding A Queer Romance Writing Mentor
Your queer romance writing mentor is out there. Here are a couple mentor types to keep an eye out for.
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How to Use the Right Critique Partner
Here’s a few questions to ask as you seek a writing critique partner to address the conflict problems you may be having with your own manuscript.
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Alpha Readers vs. Beta Readers and When to Find Them
Alpha readers and beta readers work hand in hand, but they very much belong at opposite ends of the drafting process.
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Balancing Being an Editor and Author
I have learned a lot over the past two-plus decades about what it takes to be both an editor and an author. This week, I cover a few of those lessons.
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Niching: Genre Writing
Last week, I wrote about the importance of understanding your skill sets and abilities within the book editing process, and why I chose the specialties I did. This week, I cover the other side of the equation: genre writing. There are a few ways fiction authors can decide the subgenre that best fits their style and personalities. Read on to learn more!
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How NaNoWriMo Changed Me as a Writer
The end of 2023’s Camp NaNoWriMo came six weeks ago. It was my first year participating. Check out this week’s article on how that participation affected my approach to fiction writing and the lessons you can think about applying to your own processes!
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Blogging Advice from a Burgeoning Blogger
Sometimes you have to get out of your own way, and let the universe guide you on an unpredictable journey.
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Make Writing Prompts Work for You
There’s something special about writing prompts. Even for someone who primarily sticks with the editing side of the book publishing process, I find them vital to stirring up creativity. I provide a few ways to make them work best for authors, no matter their preferred genre.
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The Editing Process: Proofreading
The final stage of the editing process is proofreading. In this week’s article, I go just beneath the surface of this process, and why it’s so vital for authors to go through this prior to moving forward in their book publishing journey. While proofreaders focus on the smallest details, they can still help authors improve their story “one word at a time!”
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The Editing Process: Copyediting
The publishing process would not be complete without copyediting, covering the mechanical side of how a manuscript reads and looks. This week, I discuss what that entails and how it helps an author reflect on their manuscript one word at a time.
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The Editing Process: Line Editing
Word by word and sentence by sentence. In this week’s blog on the editing process, I focus on what exactly it is line editors do and how they work to improve your story “one word at a time!”
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The Editing Process: Developmental Editing
Even best-selling authors have to go through the editing process, and it all starts with developmental editing. Follow me as I break down this initial step in the editing journey and introduces the key questions to be answered at this stage in the book publishing journey.
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