This morning you can find me over at BubbleCow dispensing some advice on editing. Like the guy on Apocalypse Now said: ‘Get some!’ Some insight is required on your part to answer this question. It’s somewhat akin to asking what kind of cleaning your house needs if you want to sell it. You need to [...]
There is a sense in which a novel manages you, of course, and any notion of the reverse is a sign of deviant thinking. I want to describe some of the tools I use to create books. There are word processors1; information management systems2; special pens with little animals on the end3. But I want [...]
I’ve come late to this series of articles on the blog of Pat Holt, a US-based editor and publishing-type person (her biography makes her somewhat difficult to define).