Category How To Submit to Publishers

Medium: New to the Evolving Blogging Universe

November 3, 2012 How To Submit to Publishers, Self-Publishing  No comments

The Internet is the ultimate platform for attracting attention to oneself. Writing what you want and getting others to read it is possible on a number of sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Social media and blogging have also become the focal point for business. With these game-changing players dominating the web, is there room for another big social outlet?  And that’s exactly what I was hoping to discuss.  As writers, we have new platform to consider!

Medium, newly launched but not-yet-open to posting as of early September 2012, is a site that has been developed to revolutionize online publishing. Medium was developed by The Obvious Corporation, known for creating Blogger and Twitter. With that pedigree, it certainly seems like the company is qualified to create the nextRead More

Proofreading Tips

May 11, 2010 How To Submit to Publishers, Learn the Craft, The Art of Articles, Writing Tips  4 comments

Have you ever written something, sent it out to a publisher and then been horrified when you actually see it in print because of a glaring error? Sometimes, editors miss mistakes too. Whenever you write anything you intend to print, you should proofread it thoroughly yourself, before you send to a publisher.

 The trouble with proofreading your own work is that you see what you expect to see, so you read what you think you wrote, and not necessarily what you did write. If you first and last letters of a word are in the correct order, you may not see typing errors in the middle of the word.

Firstly, use a good spell and grammar check. This will never pick up all of the errors, especially the words that sound the same but have different spellings for different meanings, such as there,Read More

How to Be Your Own Editor

December 22, 2009 How To Submit to Publishers  No comments

When you start writing, you generally start writing for yourself, for your own pleasure in finding the right words to express your feelings. Some people start writing to give others pleasure, such as A.A.Milne who wrote the famous Winnie the Pooh books for his beloved son, Christopher, but it is often a small audience at first, so those little errors don’t really matter.

 However, when you want to publish your writing, you do need to care about presenting a clean copy with no errors for the publisher to read. You need to edit your own work before you give it to a publisher. Editing is a completely different skill to writing, so it is not always easy to edit your own work. In fact, it is often easier to edit someone else’s work, because you are less familiar with it. The author oftenRead More