by Julie Rosenberg 
on Jane Friedman site:
As a girl, I absolutely adored the Little House on the Prairie series.
I would wake early in the morning, sit at the kitchen table, and devour each book.
I was inspired by young Laura and her adventures on the prairie.
What I could have never known then is what an inspiration Wilder the author would be for me as an adult.
by Glenn Miller 
on Career Authors site:
You might think marketing is the answer to selling your book. But marketing has nothing to do with you.
And I know you’d like a marketing checklist to put your books at the top of the bestseller lists right away and keep them there.
But there’s no one-size-fits-all Facebook ad plan or Amazon scheme for that. If such a foolproof recipe existed everyone would use it and crowd each other out. It would be formulaic, and so would the books it promoted.
That idea has the rules upside down, imagining that marketing is all about you.
on Anne R. Allen site:
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by Michael Mohr
Finding your literary “voice” in writing is tough, no question. So much of it is organic, visceral, from within. What does that mean? Well, basically it means that you’re not likely to “find your voice” from an MFA class or from a writing seminar or from a writing conference or from a book focusing on voice. All the above mentioned certainly can help. But to truly find your voice, if “find” is really the most accurate word (I’d say “discover”), it’s really more about your confidence, your life experience, and your sense of self as it relates to the world.
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PREVIEWING YOUR KINDLE eBOOK
This is a thorough guide to help you preview your Kindle eBook.Previewing is best done in several stages.
Proofreading the text
Initial preview for obvious issues
Check the images
Check any drop caps
Click every hyperlink (including the table of contents and footnotes)
Check any tables
Scan the entire eBook for formatting issues
Change the background color
Adjust font size, typeface, line spacing, and device margins
Adjust the orientation between portrait and landscape and scan several pages (or the whole eBook)
Test the eBook out on various devices and apps
Scan the eBook one last time before publishing
Try to preview the Look Inside (see the last section of this article)
Download the free sample after publishing
Check the Look Inside once it becomes available
Be your own first customer and scan the entire book
If you publish any revisions, ask KDP to push the updated book onto your device, and check the revision
This is a thorough guide to help you preview your Kindle eBook.
Previewing is best done in several stages.
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The Dead Game by Susanne Leist
My review follows the book blurb found on Amazon.
“Linda Bennett leaves New York for the slower-paced lifestyle of Oasis, Florida. She opens a bookstore and makes new friends. Life is simple that is until the dead body washes up onshore. She is horrified to learn that dead bodies and disappearing tourists are typical for this small town. Rumors abound of secret parties held by the original residents in their secluded mansions. Once night falls, the tourist-friendly community becomes a haven for evil and dark shadows. However, this is only the beginning.
Linda and her group receive an unsigned invitation to a party at End House, the deserted house in the forest behind the town, a mansion with a violent history. They are pursued through revolving rooms and dangerous traps, barely escaping with their lives, leaving two of their friends trapped inside.
It is up to Linda and her friends to search out The Dead and find the evil one controlling their once peaceful community. Can they trust the Sheriff and his best friend, Todd? THE DEAD GAME has begun.”
*****
Normally I don’t read books with vampires, nevertheless I read this one. I bought as it was free in Kindle and I kept seeing it posted on Twitter. Leist has great grammar and it is a fast-paced paranormal thriller. The entire town of Oasis was strange, and then it got stranger! Twists and turns abound with strange mysterious events happening. Good versus evil (vampires) and I must say I felt a bone chilling cold as I read. There is a vast number of characters, and some I just couldn’t connect with – lacking in this book. I think some editing on those characters would make this book even better! Regardless, FIVE solid stars!
Last month, when I put together the Master Lists of writing craft skills to provide insights for self-editing and/or finding editors, I created a list for each phase of editing:
As I mentioned in the Line Editing post, in my experience, line editing is the hardest type of editing to nail down. We can say that line editing is about how we write scenes and paragraphs, but what does that mean?
Let’s take a closer look at what line editing encompasses…
While developmental editing is about the story and characters and copy editing is about grammar rules and sentence-level issues, line editing skills are all about…
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