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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

Back on October 30, I wrote, “The Daring, Dashing, Non-Editorialized Tale of a National Novel Writing Month Rebel.” That blog post detailed

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

Innovative Editing’s Author of the Month program has some seriously amazing authors lined up for 2018. And they have some pretty awesome rea

We touched on this topic with yesterday’s positive attitude-focused Writing Challenge, I know. But your publishing success is more than wort

In the editorial world, as with every other aspect of human existence, names matter. Readers first judge a copy’s worth by its blog post tit

I’m honestly not sure if “Attitude: The Writer’s Final Frontier” makes sense or not. Nor am I going to speculate too much about it. I’ve be

Regardless of the subject matter, the title of author should sound noteworthy – even imposing – when it carries as much responsibility as it

If this week’s focus on attitude sounds a lot like last week’s topic – writitude – you’re both right and wrong. Writitude, which is being gr

For years, I swore I would never get on Pinterest: that it was a ginormous waste of any sane intellectual’s time. Then I got on it to promo

Do you know that writers have superpowers? Well, we do. We have the ability to create whole entire worlds and put bad guys away. We can mak

Happy Thanksgiving, my fellow writers! I hope you find joy in your turkey and stuffing, your days off and your family members. And if the t

I have another cheesy “writitude” blog post scheduled for Thanksgiving tomorrow. So I’m using today to say what I’m thankful for, and that’s

Some of you are going to find my writing horribly cheesy this holiday week. Consider yourself forewarned. Normally, I hate cheesy holiday g

I’m so exceptionally proud to announce that Innovative Editing has been voted the best place to work – ever! Editors have never had it so go

So you’ve determined that a writing retreat is right for you. You even already signed up for updates about Lia Mack and Jeannette DiLouie’s

This editor is going to go out on an anti-feminist limb and say how much she hates gender-neutral pronouns. Yes, I’m female. Yes, I’m educa

For Tuesday’s Definition of “writing retreat,” I spent plenty of paragraphs describing how amazing these getaways can be. Oh, they’re so lov

Today, I’ve asked Tony Ceraso to fill in for me. Founder of Home School Astronomy (www.HomeSchoolAstronomy.com) and author of its array of a

What do you think of when you hear the term “writing retreat?” Let’s analyze it a bit. From a purely analytical, grammatically minded persp