Use consistent name across your author platform

As creating an author’s platform – that is, setting up all of the tools you’ll use to get word out about your book – pay close attention to the name you use. All too often, the social media si…

Book Review: The Blossoming of the Big Tree by Dilman Dila

7 Great Tips for Revising Your Manuscript

You’ve written a first draft of your novel or short story, but reading it over, it feels like a mess! Even worse, you’re a little overwhelmed about exactly how to fix it. Here are seven…

Shaping up your spelling: Mould vs. mold

How you spell this word – whether referring to fungus or shaping something – depends if you’re in America or not.American English prefers mold. This extends to its derivatives such as moldy and mol…

6 Punctuation Tips for Writers

• Line of confusion: -ly words and hyphens • No hyphen needed in ‘goer’ words • To use or not to use the Oxford comma…• Easy to understand comma rules • Don’t lose sleep over this confusing c…

Affirm Your Belief in Beauty by Writing

Perhaps what sets us apart from the animal kingdom is that we create art. Yes, chimps and elephants both have made paintings while whales and dolphins sing, but no animal on the planet other t…

Use consistent name across your author platform

As creating an author’s platform – that is, setting up all of the tools you’ll use to get word out about your book – pay close attention to the name you use. All too often, the social media si…