Whether your book is fiction or non-fiction (business, memoir, how-to), its “gold” is what will garner the serious consideration it deserves in the marketplace, and its obstacles are what will send it to the circular files of publishing professionals. An Analysis and Recommendation report (A&R) by a Certified Ghostwriter will show you both. After you’ve […]
As a ghostwriter, the one thing that breaks my heart is to watch someone with a great story lower it to a plebian level by Writing it themselves when they aren’t writers, or don’t have time and passion to do it well Publishing an unedited—or poorly edited—manuscript Choosing a schlocky cover HOW TO MAKE […]
What’s the first memory that comes to mind when I say, “wet shoes” ? For me, it’s the time I lived in a South American country during the drenching winter rain season.Two hours before my flight left for Spanish-speaking lands I’d packed new black leather pumps for the required “office attire” of my upcoming job. Little did the shoes […]
by SP Turgon In non-fiction, keeping your target audience in mind is critical to good communication: you gotta speak their language. Is your target audience your industry peers, or do you want to educate a new group of curious learners? Writing to peers is easy. But for many experts, writing for curious beginners is […]
By SP Turgon One of the hardest things to see in your own manuscript is where it is its own worst enemy—where it encourages your reader to stop reading. But a structural edit helps prevent that. Whether it’s non-fiction or fiction, a book’s success hangs on pulling the reader through. From sentence to sentence. Paragraph to paragraph. Page […]
By SP Turgon Scream! Sob! Accuse! Lament! Rage! Reveal! It’s where you get to yell at everybody, cry your eyes out, sling accusations willy-nilly, and bring up every stored-away-for-the-right-moment injury that happened throughout your lifetime. Or, if you’re holding family grudges, maybe the inciting incident didn’t even happen in your lifetime. Maybe it’s cherished like a […]
Then you discover that time slips away without getting words on paper because writing is harder than it looks.
Or, the words might be there but they don’t sound like you heard it in your head or felt it in your heart.
