Editing ‘The Last Superhero’
When Astrid asked me to edit “The Last Superhero,” a lot of thoughts went through my mind. It wasn’t my first full-length novel. I’d edited at least half a dozen before this one. It wasn’t even my first time editing her work – I’ve edited two full-length novels and...
November Book Wrap-up
The second half of November, once I finished some major work events, was great for reading. I finished 7 books in all, though among that I'm including one I edited (I'll have read it about 4 times by the time I finish work on it this week). This was a diverse reading...
October Book Wrap-up
I have been working working working and so this post is late late late! Ack! October was a decent reading month with 5 books total. Two of them were shorter books but one was 771 pages long (and felt even longer) so I'm going to consider that a very good month. With...
September Book Wrap-up
It's time again (already?!?) for my monthly book wrap-up. After a disappointing August with only 2 books, I was ready to really bump it up in September. Oh yeah! And did I succeed? Um, I read 3 books last month. But let's focus on the positive - all three were...
Course Review – Character Development Intensive
Over the years, I've taken multiple courses online from Gotham Writers at writingclasses.com. Most of their online courses are 6-10 weeks long and include weekly lessons to read and discuss with your classmates, exercises to complete on your own, homework with...
What happened to August?
AKA: The life of a freelancing editor I had grand plans to blog regularly in August, and then several things happened that sort of interfered. Most of them are actually word-related so they're worthy of sharing here, though as you can see from last week's post, not...