Tag: resources
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2014 Reading Retrospective: Year of the Female SFF Author
A year ago, I decided to balance the scales and devote 2014 to reading 18 books by female science fiction and fantasy authors. In 2012 and 2013, the ratio of male to female authors on my reading lists was about 2:1. You can check out my previous series of blog posts for the details: Reading…
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Great Editors for SFF Novelists
In my last post, I talked about how I started with a broad list of developmental editors, how I narrowed down the list, and how I ended up with a difficult decision among 5 really fantastic editors. In this post, I list those 5 editors and talk about why you might want to hire them…
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Self-Editing: Second Pass
A while ago, I talked about how I scoured the Internet for tips on self-editing a novel and concluded that three passes made sense. Today I’m back to share a checklist for revisions. (See the first pass here.) Tomorrow, I’ll send the first five chapters of The Ageless off to my beta readers, which means I’ve already…