Personal tools
You are here: Home Sometimes I Write ... Best Grammar Tips I've Found

Search results

I can't emphasize enough how important it is for authors to not only write well but think ahead constructively when it comes to marketing the work they're laboring so hard on. Planning for selling your book has to be done waaaaaaaaay in advance. Thanks to Doris for permission to reblog this article. http://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/7-errors-writers-make-when-dealing-with-the-media/
_____
tags:
Tuesday, February 12, 2013  |  Permalink | 
trackback URL:   http://mycopyeditor.com/my-copy-editor-blog/7-errors-to-avoid-when-dealing-with-the-media/sbtrackback
An article in The Atlantic, by Peter Osnos, a journalist turned book editor/publisher. He spent 18 years working at various bureaus for The Washington Post before founding Public Affairs Books.
_____
tags:
Thursday, September 06, 2012  |  Permalink | 
trackback URL:   http://mycopyeditor.com/my-copy-editor-blog/the-cruel-paradox-of-self-publishing/sbtrackback
Published in The New York Times, March 17, 2012
_____
tags:
Sunday, March 18, 2012  |  Permalink | 
trackback URL:   http://mycopyeditor.com/my-copy-editor-blog/my-lifes-sentences/sbtrackback
Found this on Facebook. Thanks to Bill DeMain for putting it on Mental Floss. These words and more can be found in BBC researcher Adam Jacot de Boinod’s book ‘The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World.’
_____
tags:
Thursday, January 12, 2012  |  Permalink | 
trackback URL:   http://mycopyeditor.com/my-copy-editor-blog/15-wonderful-words-no-english-equivalent/sbtrackback
Though this article by Justin Brown was written in 2008, the words he mentioned have been problems for as long as I can remember.
_____
tags:
Saturday, January 07, 2012  |  Permalink | 
trackback URL:   http://mycopyeditor.com/my-copy-editor-blog/10-words-you-mispronounce/sbtrackback
A client sent me a link to Ernest Nicastro's latest blog article, and I have his permission to link it here.
_____
tags:
Wednesday, July 13, 2011  |  Permalink | 
trackback URL:   http://mycopyeditor.com/my-copy-editor-blog/misused-words/sbtrackback
_____
tags:
Saturday, February 12, 2011  |  Permalink | 
trackback URL:   http://mycopyeditor.com/my-copy-editor-blog/writing-a-great-book-proposal/sbtrackback
_____
tags:
Monday, December 27, 2010  |  Permalink | 
trackback URL:   http://mycopyeditor.com/my-copy-editor-blog/until-till-til/sbtrackback
Or anything you write, for that matter. Check out this info from Joanna Penn's blog, The Creative Penn. By the way, this "trick" is something I've been recommending to authors for decades. Those who follow this advice can save themselves a bundle.
_____
tags:
Sunday, October 10, 2010  |  Permalink | 
trackback URL:   http://mycopyeditor.com/my-copy-editor-blog/7-reasons-to-read-aloud/sbtrackback
From Alan Rinzler's blog, The Book Deal: An Inside View of Publishing
_____
tags:
Thursday, October 07, 2010  |  Permalink | 
trackback URL:   http://mycopyeditor.com/my-copy-editor-blog/literary-agents-and-self-publishing/sbtrackback