by Katie McCoach | Sep 17, 2015 | Author Tips, Editing, Writing
As an author, your relationship with your editor, your book cover designer, your agent, and your publishing house are all extremely important to your success. I believe in good and bad energy—what you put out, you get back in return. Day to day, I work my tail off to...
by Katie McCoach | Apr 2, 2015 | Author Resources, Editing, NaNoWriMo, Reading, Writing
The debate on whether craft books on writing are necessary or not has gone on, and will continue to go on, forever. I believe that first and foremost you learn best by doing—the more you write, the more you’ll learn. As Jayne Ann Krentz & Susan Elizabeth...
by Katie McCoach | Mar 5, 2015 | Author Tips, Editing, NaNoWriMo, Writing
Your fingers hurt. Your eyes burn. You haven’t had anything to drink except coffee for the past few days, weeks, year. You are pretty sure you haven’t slept a full night without dreaming about characters and plot lines. You are certain you will never type...
by Katie McCoach | Nov 6, 2014 | Author Tips, Editing, Guest Blogs, Publishing, Writing
Guest post by Jeff Seymour It’s here, and by God, you wish it wasn’t. It’s like Christmas morning, if what Santa dropped off was a point-by-point list of everything you’d done last year that he liked and disliked, with special emphasis on the things you weren’t sure...
by Katie McCoach | Nov 14, 2013 | Author Tips, Editing, Publishing, Writing
I’ve been fortunate enough in that many of my clients are already aware of developmental editing and why it’s important for their work, however this is not always going to be the case. Many authors, even self-published ones, still underestimate the importance of a...