Developmental Fiction Editing
Have you ever wondered if there are ways for you to check basic issues in your manuscript before you send your novel to an editor? While it’s impossible to see your manuscript in a fresh light (because you know too much about it), you can adopt a developmental self-editing checklist. This means that you can […]
Recent edits and current availability I’ve recently been too busy with editing to get the next blog posts written. So I thought I’d write something shorter instead on the genres I’ve recently edited. Right now I’m working on a developmental analysis of a memoir. While I usually work on fiction, I have worked on memoir […]
Narrative devices in Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life. Story of Your Life is a 1998 Nebula-winning science fiction novella, later adapted as the film Arrival. Written by Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life takes a less than exciting idea – variational principles in physics – and transforms it into a moving story about a […]
Historical Novels Review The Historical Novels Review is a quarterly publication you receive when you subscribe to the Historical Novel Society. Since historical fiction is one of the genres I edit (and write), I decided it was time to sign up. As a member, you have the ability to add your own directory entry. Even […]
How editorial feedback changed Interview with the Vampire Interview with the Vampire is one of the most famous vampire novels in history, easily ranking with Dracula and Carmilla as a milestone in the genre. It was a novel that not only changed the life of its author Anne Rice, but also the genre itself. This […]