My Baby, She Wrote Me a Very Strange Letter
Send to KindleSpeaking of narrators, there was a style of novel prevalent in the nineteenth century known as the epistolary novel. Briefly defined, it is a novel composed of various letters or diary...
View ArticleTechnically Speaking
Send to KindleThis is a biggie. Technical errors are the bane of the genre writer’s existence, mainly, but they can also undo any writer. If a character in your English country house drama set in 1860...
View ArticleOld News
Send to KindleA website, GreatWriting.co.uk, re-published a Stephen King essay from 1986 entitled “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully: in Ten Minutes” (please follow the link to...
View ArticleProper Punctuation
Send to KindlePunctuation and other “mechanical” errors such as incorrect spacing, capitalization, sentence structure, and spelling can be killers for your writing. If you get them wrong, it can mark...
View ArticleProper Punctuation Part Two
Send to KindlePunctuation and other “mechanical” errors such as incorrect spacing, capitalization, sentence structure, and spelling can be killers for your writing. If you get them wrong, it can mark...
View ArticleThe Dream Can Come True
Send to KindleThe electronic book revolution continues apace, and recently much attention has been paid to two people who might well be considered its first stars. Xynobooks author Sangeeta Bhagwat...
View ArticleNeatness Counts
Send to KindleWhile the Xynobooks staff handles the final formatting of manuscripts before they are published on the various e-book platforms that we serve, prospective authors can do many things to...
View ArticleBlow Your Own Horn
Send to KindleYou are your own best salesman. All authors, regardless of whether they work with a publisher like Xynobooks, are in large part responsible for pushing themselves on readers, for lack of...
View ArticleBeware the Blue Pencil
Send to KindleThat venerable tool of editing is ultimately your friend, but the marks it makes on your manuscript can be deep wounds, indeed. It can be avoided, however, with some effort on the...
View ArticleAll You Do is Talk Talk
Send to KindleVoice-recognition (AKA voice transcription) software has come a long way in the last few years. The basic technology’s been around for while, but it’s only recently that the quality of...
View ArticleKill Your Babies!
Send to KindleNo, please, don’t take this literally. I’m not advocating infanticide. It’s only a figure of speech (from Wikipedia: a word or a phrase, which transcends its literal interpretation.) What...
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