Innovative Editing

If you read last week’s fiction-genre Definition, Challenge and Rule, you may have noticed a little bit of an attitude on my part toward lit

So now we know that literary fiction is highbrow. Using Victorian writing styles and vocabulary choices, it’s designed to explore the writer

What makes literary fiction literary fiction? That’s kind of hard to define considering how it can and does borrow from every other genre.

Calling all screenwriters and screenwriters-in-the-making! Innovative Editing is focused on your particular talent for once, no thanks to m

Starting out our lengthy list of fiction genres is literary fiction. If you go into Barnes & Noble or your local bookstore, you’re prob

Hi, guys! I hope you’re all nice and warm right now and survived yesterday’s freezing cold temperatures. Here in balmy Lancaster, PA, it got

If you caught yesterday’s fiction factoid on Facebook, you’ll know that: Fiction isn’t always written for fun. Sometimes it’s written to te

It’s not a pool of novel-writing competition out there. It’s a swamp. A pool is nice and neat and contained. Oh, it might be an Olympic-siz

This year, our focus is going to be on genres, starting out with the fiction side of things. So if you’re working on a novel manuscript, the

I think I've finally figured out why we so rarely meet our New Year's resolutions. This applies to any weight loss or organizational

Yesterday, we said that a back cover blurb’s main goal is to intrigue the book’s ideal readers. Doing that requires work, of course: resear

This week, we’re discussing back cover blurbs and which one works best for your book. Which can be quite the process. That’s why we ended T

What do you do when you’re browsing in a traditional bookstore for your next great read? Probably check out front covers, and if one snags y

I don’t claim to be Santa Claus. I don’t see you when you’re sleeping. And unless you’re right in front of me, I have no idea whether you’re

Yesterday, we talked about the first two steps in picking your book’s perfect front cover. They were researching your genre and analyzing yo

Think about all the books you have on your shelf at home. Now think about all their front covers. There’s probably a wide variety of picture

They say to never judge a book by its front cover. But why not? I’ve long-since claimed that “Judge not lest you be judged” is one of the m

How important is your book title? For real… Well, like we covered earlier this week, these things do matter. If you’re unpublished, your bo

Hello, my name is Jeannette DiLouie, and I hate coming up with book titles. Except in my fantasy series, for some reason. Not So Human, To

What’s in a book title? Well, words. Obviously. Hopefully descriptive words. A book title is – or at least should be – something that speak