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I recently submitted an article idea to a new publication I just became acquainted with. Because this was over Facebook, I got into a little

Jeannette: Hi, Tabitha! We’re going to get right into it. Tell us a bit about your book, Called. What makes it tick? What’s it about? Tabit

With yesterday’s Writing Challenge, we covered your ethical responsibility in writing a biography. For today’s Writing Rule though, we go fr

Editor’s Note 1: This article is written by anonymous so that no school teachers suffer more than they already are. But anonymous still know

Going all negative isn’t always a bad thing. This is the realization I came to last week after I realized I was taking a shower with a spid

Beta readers. It’s a term I never heard once during my first 20 years of writing. Part of that, no doubt, is because I was a pretty little

Since I’m not a horror fiction writer, I wanted to practice my editorial preaching before I put this together. That meant doing some pre-wri

This article isn’t entirely against hiring a ghostwriter. That’s why the title says “Be Cautious,” not “Avoid Completely.” There are some d

So you want to write a business book about your area of expertise? That’s great! I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who can use

Are you one of those people who stresses out over every single business email you compose? If so, you’re in similarly neurotic company here

On Tuesday, I was just finishing up a final editorial check of January’s Author of the Month post. A prolific writer herself, this insightf

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

Last week, we discussed four friendly tips on how to edit your business article or blog post. That piece gave the editorial advice to read o

You just wrote an amazing article. Or blog post. Or some other kind of business copy. Whatever it is, you rocked it! How do you know you r

What’s your company Christmas party typically like? Let’s see if you can relate to my previous experiences. - Awkward conversation, with co

Nice manuscript editors deserve the perfect Christmas presents. Don’t you agree? Not naughty ones, of course. They deserve horrible Christm

Way back when I held the title of mere copyeditor instead of Chief Executive Editor… I worked with a lot of ellipses. What’s an ellipses, a

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

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