Amateur writers ask one question a lot when I’m doing my pro bono work over on Amazon Kindle’s writeon site. Why is there so much emphasis placed, by developmental editors such as myself, on the opening few pages of a … Read More
Delighted to say that two novels that editorial.ie has worked on, “Songs of All Poets” and “An Emu War”, are among the 39 titles long-listed for the 2016 Bath Novel Award. Our fingers are firmly crossed! One of the great … Read More
Here’s an extract from an article in AFR magazine about the relationship between author and editor. Key takeaway: “You learn that getting a hard edit doesn’t mean you’re a shit writer”. Art of editing The question of how tough is … Read More
One of the issues that comes up most frequently when I’m looking at fiction is point of view, or POV. I’m going to go through in some detail about each different POV and its characteristics in future posts, when perhaps … Read More
Apostrophes. Why do so many people get this particular little punctuation mark wrong? We’ve all passed the market stall with “5 banana’s for a £”. Left is one of the ways you can permanently display your ignorance about the correct … Read More