Editing your own work to help you refine your writing skills and learn more about your own style and habits. It has a critical eye to your own writing means that you acknowledge both your strengths and your weaknesses and can tailor your efforts to focus on areas requiring further improvement. Before you hire publishers [...]

Editing, whether it is for an academic journal, a short story submission, or a non-fiction manuscript for publishing, always follows basic rules of grammar and punctuation. This blog will help you learn the basic rules of em dashes and ellipses, and how to use them accurately in your work. While this [...]

When most people think of publishing, the big publishing houses in New York and London come to mind. However, self-publishing is also an option, and although most successful self-published works are classics of literature written and produced before the advent of the major publishing industry, self-publishing is becoming popular again—among a wholly different crowd.
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