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Website Design Changes
With spring comes spring cleaning, and websites should be no exception. We’ve been examining our site’s page load stats recently and noticed that there were a few areas of the site that received little or no traffic. This indicated to … Continue reading
Posted in Editing, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged author, background, customer base, marketing plan, platform, website
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Making Sense of Ebooks
This content originally appeared on 6 February 2013 as a guest post on the blog of Elizabeth Mahadeo, a satisfied client of Sleeping Cat Books. In this digital age, ebooks continue to gain prominence. As an author, it is certainly … Continue reading
Posted in Ebook Design, Editing, Marketing, Writing
Tagged Amazon Kindle, e-book, ebook, ebook conversion, EPUB, ereader, formatting, Kobo, Smashwords
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It’s all relative
What’s the difference between a restrictive relative clause and a nonrestrictive relative clause? What’s a relative clause, even? A relative clause is a dependent clause that begins with either a relative pronoun (that, which, who), a relative adjective (whose), or … Continue reading
Who Versus Whom
One of the more confusing pieces of English grammar is when to use who and whom. Actually, there’s a very simple test you can use in most cases to discover which one is correct. Simply restructure the sentence in your … Continue reading
Editors and eBooks
I’ve wanted to emphasize the need for self-publishers to hire an independent, professional copy editor before going to print, but just couldn’t find the right words. An American Editor has found them for me, and with much more style than I … Continue reading
To continue with dissertations
That is the question. I’ve been considering adding dissertation/thesis editing and formatting to my list of services offered. My dissertation client offered to pass out and hang a flier at her university for me. But I have to wonder if … Continue reading
Branching out
I usually edit fiction, but a friend from high school recently contacted me about editing and formatting her doctoral dissertation, and I agreed. I’ve never worked on a dissertation before, but her university provided very specific guidelines for organization and … Continue reading
Types or levels of editing
There are a few different types or levels of editing that writers encounter in the course of preparing a manuscript for publication. While there is a bit of overlap between the types, and many people use different names for them, I’ve … Continue reading
Manuscript Formatting
Occasionally I receive a manuscript for copy editing that looks like a print book, or at least like it’s trying to be a print book. In these cases, I carefully explain to the author that such formatting (adding a table … Continue reading
Are Typos Okay?
A few days ago, a good friend (writer Ransom Noble) sent me a link to a CNN editorial article about typos. The author of the article, Bob Greene, was prompted to write it because of the recent scare when the … Continue reading