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Long-time editing client publishes latest work

A long-time editing client recently published his latest spiritual work, "Cussing Christians." The short tome asks a simple question: Should Christians swear? The answer, Jetton argues, carries great consequences. The book explores what the Bible has to say about the words we use and recounts some real-life examples focusing on how the language we use affects others. If you have ever struggled with being a good Christian influence yet coming across like a goody two-shoes with co-workers and friends, then this book is for you! "Cussing Christians" is available online.

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

5 Terrific Ways to Market Your Book

• Market your book with endorsements
• How to get your self-published book into a library 
• Promote your book for free on various websites 
• Sell more books by carrying them around 
• Have readers ask for your title in a bookstore

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

7 Great Tips on Writing Your Nonfiction Book

• How to structure your nonfiction book
• Create a basic outline for your nonfiction book
• Forewords, prefaces and introductions 
• Use appendix to add extra info to your book
• Writing your nonfiction book's bibliography
• How to construct an index for a nonfiction book
• Great formulas for writing a nonfiction title

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

Six Common Comma Errors

• Serial comma: Use, don't use, or don't worry?
• Place commas inside quotation marks
• Use commas to set off nonessential information
• Use comma before coordinating conjunction
• Use comma to set off introductory element
• Watch for comma splices in your writing

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

6 Great Tricks for Beating Writer’s Block

• Describe any object
• Make up a situation
• Random words
• Describe any object
• Try a new genre
• Create an out-of-whack event
• BONUS: “Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked.” - Anne Lamott

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

Avoid ‘organ music’ to create story suspense

Sometimes when attempting to create tension and suspense in a story, writers can undercut their own efforts by adding “organ music.”

A term coined at the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop, organ music us providing “details that countersink an emotional response before anything happens.” An example is crackling lightning before a character is murdered.

This not-so-subtle form of foreshadowing doesn’t create suspense, as some novice authors believe. Instead, it actually gives away what is about to happen. It’s akin to the villain telling the hero, “And now I will shoot you.” Just have the villain fire his atom blaster.

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

Five Great Quotes about Writing as Self-Discovery

“The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.” - Gustave Flaubert

“In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself.” - Alfred Kazin

“Creative writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculous, it clearly was, precisely that.” - A.S. Byatt

“Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer’s head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you’ve had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn’t set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.” - Hilma Wolitzer

“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.” - Sharon O’Brien

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

Wisconsin editing client publishes new mystery

A recent editing client, Wisconsin mystery writer Alexi Venice, has published her latest novel. "Bourbon Chase" tells the story of three women - an ER doctor, an experienced detective, and a powerful, young district attorney - when a physician becomes a murder suspect in the death of his paramour. Did he really commit the murder? When the three women disagree about his guilt, can their friendship survive? And can the truth really be discovered? The book is available online.

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

Six Ways to Boost Author Website Visits

• How to drive traffic to your website
• Increase website visits with strategic
• Employ right keywords to boost book sales 
• Use Google’s Keyword tool to sell more books
• Boost book sales via backlinks to your website
• Advertise your book via web widgets 

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

Five Things You Need to Know about Ebooks

• Will you take advantage of ebook's opportunity for innovative storytelling, content presentation?
• Ebooks differ significantly from paper books 
• Four main ways exist to present your ebook
• Two ebook formats dominate industry
• Know parts of an ebook when creating one 

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.