MS Word Tip #5: Smart Quotes, Straight Quotes, and Apostrophes
Controlling use of smart vs straight quotes MS Word offers two styles of quotation marks: smart quotes and straight quotes. […]
MS Word Tips #4: Paragraph Formatting Features
Document Vs Paragraph Formatting All the formatting information for the document is stored with the final character on that document. […]
MS Word Tips #3: Setting Up Pages and Formatting Documents
MS Word provides two separate options for formatting documents. The first is Page Setup or Layout which includes setting the […]
MS Word Tip #2: Understanding Templates
Why do I need to know about Microsoft templates? MS Word templates are like cookie cutters. Everytime you begin a […]
Bargain Book Platforms
As a reader, I’ve been experimenting with bargain book platforms for a couple of reasons. First, I want to see […]
Authors You Love to Hate?
All the recent publicity about W.W. Norton’s decision to stop distributing and publicizing Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth because […]
Publishing Scams
Advice from BookBaby on spotting scams aimed at indie authors. Author beware.
Common Issues in Manuscripts Requiring Corrections: #10 Phrasal Verbs
This is the tenth in a series of posts to address common issues I have found in manuscripts with my […]
Common Issues in Manuscripts Requiring Correction: #9 British vs American Spelling
This is the ninth in a series of posts to address common issues in manuscripts with my suggestions for how […]
Common Issues in Manuscripts Requiring Correction: #8 Sentence-ending Punctuation
This is the eighth in a series of posts to address common issues in manuscripts with my suggestions for how […]
Common Issues in Manuscripts Requiring Corrections: #7 Scare Quotes
This is the seventh in a series of posts to address common issues with my suggestions for how writers can […]
Common Issues in Manuscripts Requiring Corrections: #6 Foreign Words
This is the sixth in a series of posts to address issues I have seen in the work of others […]
Common Issues in Manuscripts Requiring Corrections: #5 Commas
This is the fifth in a series of posts to address common issues with my suggestions for how writers can […]
Common Issues in Manuscripts Requiring Corrections: #4 Hyphens and Numbers
This is the fourth in a series of posts to address common issues I have found in manuscripts with my […]
Common Issues in Manuscripts Requiring Corrections: #3 Numbers
This is the third in a series of posts to address common issues I have found in manuscripts with my […]
