This month we continue our line editing series with editor THERESA STEVENS. Welcome back, Theresa! This month we continue our line editing series with an entry that gives us a chance to talk about content editing [...]
Editor extraordinaire THERESA STEVENS is back with with an in-depth example of the line editing process. This month we continue our line editing series with an entry we are told is YA fantasy. Chapter One [...]
Happy Friday, RU Crew! Please help me welcome researcher and editor Franzeca Drouin to the campus. Franzeca’s research and editorial skills are much in demand by writers of all publication levels. I should know. She [...]
Welcome to Theresa Stevens’s monthly Ask an Editor blog! Theresa has some more great tips this month on how to work with submission guidelines. Welcome, Theresa! This month, we’re taking a question from the mailbag. [...]
Welcome to Theresa Stevens’s monthly Ask an Editor blog! Today, Theresa gives us the lowdown on settings. Very commonly, writers want to know what separates the publishable-but-ordinary book from the publishable-and-great one. The answer is [...]
I heard an editor speak at a conference and she said the most important thing in a romance is “emotion, emotion, emotion.” I guess I understand that, but how do we know if we have [...]
This month instead of tackling a specific question in the mailbag, we’re going to do an FAQ post on “ordinary world,” which is probably the most confusing aspect of story structure for romance novelists. Why [...]
This month, we’ll consider a pair of questions on point of view (POV). If you wouldn’t mind, I would like some clarification on third person points of view and which one if any are good [...]
RU crew, today Theresa Stevens is back with another great Ask an Editor lecture. Want to make sure the first meet between your H/H (hero and heroine) is on target? Then read on! A special [...]
This month, we’re looking at a question that comes up frequently in the mailbag, though it takes many varied forms. The upshot: a writer is sitting on a completed manuscript. It belongs in a genre [...]