I recently received a comment from someone on one of my entries where they stated that “editing is such a subjective talent”. It’s accurate, to a degree, but it can also be said that writing is a subjective talent as well. As with any art, everybody has their own tastes and preferences; some people prefer...Read More

This week instead of my babbling, I’m going to post up a guest blog from the author “George Lasher”. His story, “The Forgetful Wizard” has appeared in two of our published anthologies: “Under the Stairs” and “Damn Faeries”. Thank you for writing in, George! I started writing in 2000 by penning a fan-fiction, Batman novel....Read More

When writing you need to build an image. Create a world and an environment and characters and… It’s all a lot of work. And of course, in that, you need to make the reader see all of these places and people, which is not as easy as it sounds. During my time writing, and editing,...Read More

Many authors come against a wall, eventually, when they start working to get published. This wall is called the “oh my God, this is actually work?” wall. Okay, well maybe it isn’t the official title, I’m sure I’ll think of something snappy later. Most writers think about how great it would be to be the...Read More

This blog won’t pertain to anyone except the authors I’m working with, so I apologize that this isn’t exactly a “general consumption” blog. However, I’ve been asked many, many times how to respond to my edits and what some of the marks mean. Also, I will be posting one on Tuesday, but I felt that...Read More

I apologize again for missing my mark last week – I’ve recently started a new job and I was travelling still. I’m home and so my blog should be back to your regularly scheduled insanity. Editing is a strange and intimidating thing for most authors – even if you’ve worked with peers and had friends...Read More

Alright, this week’s blog is going to be about dialogue. It’s a problem for many authors and I think a large part of it has to do with the fact that in order to write good dialogue you have to write “incorrectly” and that just drives people up a tree. However, despite the fact that...Read More

At one of our weekly meetings, Dr. Tupper mentioned to me an email that he had fielded that questioned our “editorial severity” as compared to the large publishers. This naturally made me raise an eyebrow in concern and some measure of offense given the degree of effort we put into our work. He went on...Read More